shack
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Outside a nearby shack Linkie listens with interest as she cleans clothes in a large metal bucket.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
For a dozen years, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan has operated a side gig in Montauk: a seafood shack that draws celebrities and influencers with sunset views, Dom Pérignon and a $97 lobster salad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
At her bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack in Cox's Bazar, Begum says her dreams of freedom sank with the boat.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The West Hollywood clam shack conjures Rhode Island on the West Coast, be it with clams of all kinds, lobster cooked just right or oysters treated with reverence.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
The roof was lifting off the little shack.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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
Across the country, there are still farms operating under 1960s standards – tin shacks, walls made of baked soil or cement bricks, and no fencing.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 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
Howard Fuller left Ann’s house shocked that shotgun shacks still existed in American cities in the 1960s.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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