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[shak] / ʃæk /


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People stop by Amadou Gaye's shack at the market in the western town of Sukuta to use his small electric mill to grind millet for cooking porridge or the local steamed grain dish called chere.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The owner of a small plot crowded with RVs and a rundown shack proved the most difficult, demanding $50,000 in hard cash for the option to buy, Rucci said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

To build it they flipped the longtime Silver Spoon diner into their modern seafood shack, alongside their business partners Donato Poto, Amy Specter Nickoloff and Craig Nickoloff.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

He stopped at the shack to buy a big clay bowl of sweets.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

In one neighbourhood of the small town, many shacks where the prospectors lived and did business for more than a decade have also been destroyed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

I passed on my way to the gate shacks whose windows had been shattered, whose doors had been busted.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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