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shacks

noun

plural of shack

as in huts

a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms

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Recent Examples of shacks Gun homicides mostly affect South Africa’s poorest communities in townships and informal settlements made up of shacks and small homes on the edges of big cities. — Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 Gun homicides mostly affect South Africa's poorest communities in townships and informal settlements made up of shacks and small homes on the edges of many big cities. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Fishermen spend the night in small wooden shacks on the river islands, checking their nets. — Sebastián López Brach, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026 Unlike most bare-bones seafood shacks, there’s real table service here, with smiling, friendly servers, to boot. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026 During dry seasons, herders can move 100 miles (roughly 160 kilometers) with their livestock, sleeping under the stars or in makeshift shacks along the way. — Anne Pisor, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026 At least 30 people were killed in a massive landslide in Guinea on Sunday when a mountainous open-air landfill collapsed and buried nearby shacks, trapping numerous victims beneath a mass of garbage. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Outings to island seafood shacks and floating bar boats become lazy daylong excursions. — Hannah Seligson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 By 1975, Pierce had 20 shacks around Chicago, franchised to family or friends. — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

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For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Treatment huts are—of course—lovely, and my massage was performed by an incredible therapist who clicked my bones in all the right places and left me feeling light as air.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026

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Even local landmarks can have a part in shameful history, with de Courcy noting that Memorial Auditorium was a staging area for the shipment of Japanese American residents to internment camps for during World War II.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Hayes has regularly scheduled the senior and U-23 camps to run concurrently in hopes of extending the growing fluidity between their rosters.

— Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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Alaska is far from the first carrier to remodel its cabins, but that might work to its benefit when the fresh product hits the market.

— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
The walking path leads past the animals to the property’s three cabins, giving larger groups the option to stay close while still having their own space.

— Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2026

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