shack
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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
The West Hollywood clam shack conjures Rhode Island on the West Coast, be it with clams of all kinds, lobster cooked just right or oysters treated with reverence.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
"It was a little tenant farmer's house and it really was a love shack," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
It looked like a wood shack maybe thirty feet away, on the other side of the fence.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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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
From the scrappy metal shacks packed tightly on the banks of the thin Jukskei river, the sparkly skyline of Johannesburg's richest neighbourhood less than two miles away is another world.
From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025
Tourists see abundance — the beach houses, the boutiques, the seafood shacks — but the year-round population lives in an entirely different economy.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025
They slept in rickety shacks, used communal bathrooms and showered in water that “was a very nice shade of brown,” Carter remembered with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
We greeted each other kindly and made our way back to our shacks.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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