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ramshackle

[ram-shak-uhl] / ˈræmˌʃæk əl /


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“The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, where the downbeat postwar economy has brought together a group of lodgers in the ramshackle house owned by Honor Wilson.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

For the last three years, she and her six children have been living with other internally displaced people at a ramshackle old feed processing plant in the capital, Yaoundé.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

I also inherited my beloved — at least by me — ramshackle family home that has not been lived in for more than 20 years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

Finn left the door open to the breeze and the dirt and the frantic, inconsolable cat and stomp-limped to the ramshackle blue house across the street.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby




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