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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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Watching Banderas’ chef stare at the Atlantic, it may occur to you that a cook can no longer afford a waterfront shack on the sand.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 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

There was an old man sitting in front of a wooden shack, spinning.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Hundreds of firefighters have over the past few days been battling blazes in the southwest of France famous for its sand dunes, pine trees, and oyster shacks.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

As the American painter recalled years later, Borger in the 1920s was a settlement of “rough shacks, oil rigs, pungent stinks from gas pockets, and broad-faced, big-boned Texas oil speculators.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Its irregular volumes, pastel colors, elevated decks, jagged rooflines and collage of materials — stucco, corrugated metal, broken tile — echo the local mashup of artist studios, surf shacks and light-industrial sheds.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

Tourists see abundance — the beach houses, the boutiques, the seafood shacks — but the year-round population lives in an entirely different economy.

From Salon Oct. 11, 2025

Some brought their families with them, and hid them in the shacks in illegal yards; others made their homes in abandoned cars and buildings.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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