enclave
Example Sentences
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The Bird Streets Club in West Hollywood is a private, members-only enclave that attracts a celebrity clientele.
From Los Angeles Times
For years, this scenic Russian River Valley enclave has worked to foster a community supportive of local businesses, in part, by making it difficult for large chains to move in.
From Los Angeles Times
MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.
Northern Ireland was created as a Protestant-majority enclave, but that power dynamic is undergoing a dramatic shift.
From Los Angeles Times
In that time they have fought two major wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but is populated mainly by ethnic Armenians.
From Reuters
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