ramshackle
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The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
As immortalised in the song, Pierson's ramshackle hideout hosted some wild parties, before it perished in flames in 2004.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
I also inherited my beloved — at least by me — ramshackle family home that has not been lived in for more than 20 years.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
The film crew built a ramshackle house on the 8,000-acre estate to represent a free clinic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Jud and Frank were building some enormous, ramshackle, modernistic structure out on Commons lawn, and the hammers and the power drills had started early in the morning.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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