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[shak] / ʃæk /


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To build it they flipped the longtime Silver Spoon diner into their modern seafood shack, alongside their business partners Donato Poto, Amy Specter Nickoloff and Craig Nickoloff.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Victor recalls his family living for years in a windowless dockworkers’ shack by the port.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

"It had a wood stove and no running water and a tin roof, rusted. It was a funky little shack."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

He eventually found 7 ½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey, a twenty-five-foot-wide shotgun shack that sat a few blocks away from the beach.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

It looked like a wood shack maybe thirty feet away, on the other side of the fence.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones




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