squatter
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“At least I eat sometimes,” said Cedric Mnisi, 39, who lives in a squatter camp nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
She excelled on stage and screen in Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van,” playing a crotchety squatter with an imperious sense of entitlement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024
The woman whose keen eyes once watched over her family in the squalor of the squatter camps now lives in a world of darkness and sounds.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
Once upon a time, on June 15, 1859, 27-year-old Lyman Cutlar, a squatter on the island, discovered a pig pillaging his potatoes.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024
She had been a squatter for almost fifteen years, and the city had finally decided to sell the apartments to her and the other squatters for one dollar apiece.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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