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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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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

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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