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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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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

He lives in a shack without running water and sees his family at best every six months.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

The FBI had tracked the Unabomber futilely for 18 years before his capture in a hermit’s shack in Montana in April 1996.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

In recent years, the school gifted the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer a wooden shack affixed to the top of the stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

It was a tiny one-room shack wedged into the crotch of a maple, with firm boards nailed into the trunk as a ladder.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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