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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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Watching Banderas’ chef stare at the Atlantic, it may occur to you that a cook can no longer afford a waterfront shack on the sand.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

At her bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack in Cox's Bazar, Begum says her dreams of freedom sank with the boat.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Brown himself recently met Fisher brothers Bob and Bill for lunch at his usual seafood shack, Sam’s Grill, to discuss the state of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

"It was a little tenant farmer's house and it really was a love shack," she says.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

It’s a half-hour walk to a hut made of mud and sticks, a cook shack with a fireplace, and a field of millet.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

"It's so hot it's hard to breathe," said one resident of Guryong Village, a settlement of crude wood and tarpaulin shacks hosting around 160 households according to officials.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

As the American painter recalled years later, Borger in the 1920s was a settlement of “rough shacks, oil rigs, pungent stinks from gas pockets, and broad-faced, big-boned Texas oil speculators.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Its irregular volumes, pastel colors, elevated decks, jagged rooflines and collage of materials — stucco, corrugated metal, broken tile — echo the local mashup of artist studios, surf shacks and light-industrial sheds.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

Over time, the camps have evolved, from the canvas tents and tin shacks of the 1950s into busy, overcrowded communities with some of the highest population densities in the world.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2025

After the meal, I snuck out to the forbidden part of the property where the servants' families lived in their little shanty shacks.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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