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adobe

[uh-doh-bee] / əˈdoʊ bi /
NOUN
sun-dried brick
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Instead they encountered Hawikku, an adobe pueblo in what is now western New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

Last Sunday, though, the family took a second tour of an adobe home in South Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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