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
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
Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
Franz drove Alex the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in re-turn for managing a ramshackle apartment building.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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