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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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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

People stop by Amadou Gaye's shack at the market in the western town of Sukuta to use his small electric mill to grind millet for cooking porridge or the local steamed grain dish called chere.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

In 2002, Itay Zar set up camp with his then-pregnant wife in a one-room shack with a dirt floor, two horses and a John Deere tractor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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

There was a little shack at the edge where you could put in your order.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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

Where beach shacks once stood, now you’ll find estates hidden behind hedges and marinas packed with yachts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

Amaya just stared at the old shacks and rowhouses of the darkening city around them.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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