shack
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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
Victor recalls his family living for years in a windowless dockworkers’ shack by the port.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
"It was a little tenant farmer's house and it really was a love shack," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
He eventually found 7 ½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey, a twenty-five-foot-wide shotgun shack that sat a few blocks away from the beach.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026
The dwelling at the bottom of the cerro was an old shack beyond repair.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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The beachside shacks and cheap backpacker hotels hugging the bay in the state often dubbed India's party capital are full with tourists.
From BBC ● May 16, 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
Their urban landscapes have since turned into a chaotic mix of new high-rises, Stalin-era neoclassicism, dilapidated shacks and stalled construction sites.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
Despite the many shacks, a few narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways still remained.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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