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
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
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
As soon as I open my hands, he leaps into the water, and it ripples as he swims toward his shack.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Hundreds of firefighters have over the past few days been battling blazes in the southwest of France famous for its sand dunes, pine trees, and oyster shacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Where beach shacks once stood, now you’ll find estates hidden behind hedges and marinas packed with yachts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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
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
“I know it don’t look like much. Claim shacks never do. After you get proved up, you can work on a proper house.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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