enclave
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Pounding surf lashing the swanky California enclave of Malibu on Tuesday opened up a giant sinkhole on the driveway of a house reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
When Brigid D’Souza moved to Jersey City in 2005 from Washington, D.C., she and her husband found a home in Newport, a waterfront enclave in the city’s downtown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Between March and April 1993 some 8,000 people are evacuated from the increasingly embattled enclave.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
They said they had helped "many people" cross before and would give me information about the "sewer pipes" which I could use to help me reach the enclave safely.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
And he had grown up just a few miles down Lake Washington on Mercer Island, long before it became an enclave for the wealthy.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Spain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves, which are located in North Africa, represent the European Union's only land border with Africa.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
It’s Friday afternoon in North Hollywood and Ziggy Marley is perched on a stool inside his newly built Rebel Lion Studio, tucked in one of the neighborhood’s creative enclaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Set within one of the city’s most secure gated enclaves, this newly rebuilt estate spans five acres on a commanding promontory, opening to sweeping mountain views and complete seclusion,” the description adds.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Once a low-key summer resort, Nantucket is rapidly turning into their private preserve, joining the ranks of other enclaves like Palm Beach, Aspen, the Hamptons, and Sun Valley.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
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
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
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