shack
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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
He lives in a shack without running water and sees his family at best every six months.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
I jotted the story down fast, as rain began beating against the windows of the sagging shack.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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