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enclave

[en-kleyv, ahn-] / ˈɛn kleɪv, ˈɑn- /


NOUN
reservation
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Nob Hill had a reputation as a relatively well-to-do enclave, but here, in its outer reaches, the vacancies were becoming hard to ignore.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

“Las Palmas was an enclave for affluent East Coast industrialists and Hollywood elite, who built grand desert estates with the era’s top architects and designers,” he says.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

I met Volodymyr Zelensky in a conference room inside the heavily-guarded government enclave in a well-to-do corner of central Kyiv.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

“I feel like maybe I haven’t moved on enough,” said Blankfein over lunch at The Four Seasons in Miami’s Surfside enclave.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Natural history thus slowly detached itself from the wider world of learning and began to form an enclave on its own.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton