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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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Many adults remember Little League and rec programs, dad coaches and the snack shack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Plus, Canada’s Mark Carney puts his trade doctrine to the test, and a billionaire’s seafood shack sparks a fight with Montauk locals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

But then the earring’s spell must have broken, because Cecilia, looking as old and wretched as her house, hobbled out of her shack.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

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

Across the country, there are still farms operating under 1960s standards – tin shacks, walls made of baked soil or cement bricks, and no fencing.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

Hanako spotted a group of old wooden buildings, a couple of them almost shacks, in the distance, and Papa led them through the weeds toward that.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata


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