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enclave

[en-klayv, ahn-] / ˈɛn kleɪv, ˈɑn- /


NOUN
reservation
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When she nearly miscarries, he convinces her to marry him and move to his company’s sponsored enclave that’s popping with pregnant women like her.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

A question has bedeviled a wealthy Lake Tahoe enclave for years: Who is poisoning the towering trees that stand sentry on the lake’s North Shore?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A wave of investment has brought luxury hotels, restaurants and real estate, transforming Paradise Bay, or Cennet Koyu, into a sophisticated coastal enclave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The project, built with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has also brought an unlikely Russian enclave to rural Bangladesh.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In 1962, when I had attended the mostly white San Francisco State University for two years, I found myself living among an enclave of students where I was the only person of color.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Morocco claims sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, Spain's two North African enclaves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Foreigners have been penalised for offensive acts at religious sites, forming exclusive tourist enclaves and flouting traffic laws.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and prolific property investor Flea has brought his “extraordinary” Malibu sanctuary back to the market for $7.99 million inside one of California’s most exclusive beachfront enclaves.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He calls it “The Project,” and says there’s about 7,516.07 miles in total, when you include various enclaves and adjacent cities like Beverly Hills or Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

As true geeks, it was almost a point of pride to avoid one of the trendy enclaves most American kids would kill to get to.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

The stamp cards could also include, for the completists, two cantonal quadripoints, and some space for the curious case of the two Appenzells, formerly a unified canton enclaved within Sankt Gallen.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2012

DUDLEY, a municipal, county and parliamentary borough and market-town of Worcestershire, England, in a portion of that county enclaved in Staffordshire, 8 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

Further, the writing, though large, is not easily legible, for it is involved, enclaved, and conjointed in a manner sufficiently puzzling to those who see it for the first time.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley

Between this and Dudley lie the great ironworks of Roundoak, and the extensive suburb of Netherton in the enclaved portion of Worcestershire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various


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