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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 had a wood stove and no running water and a tin roof, rusted. It was a funky little shack."

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

He lives in a shack without running water and sees his family at best every six months.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 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

"It's so hot it's hard to breathe," said one resident of Guryong Village, a settlement of crude wood and tarpaulin shacks hosting around 160 households according to officials.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 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

The interior of some of the shacks were a mess, as if a tornado had hit.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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