Thesaurus results for ENCLAVE

enclave

noun

as in district

an area with people who are different in some way from the people in the areas around it The city has a large Chinese enclave. one of the city's wealthy enclaves

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Recent Examples of enclave Dinkins grew up in Tottenville’s enclave of Black families at the southern tip of Staten Island. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026 That zone would shrink to 25 feet for boats under legislation being proposed by the Miami-Dade commissioner who represents North Bay Village and other island enclaves off of Biscayne Bay. —

Douglas Hanks, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026 Is our town becoming an ethnic enclave? —

Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026 Macau, China At the crossroads of a number of different civilizations, Macau is today a small enclave of China with—like nearby Hong Kong—a unique status as a special administrative region. —

Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 15 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enclave

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Noun

Some board members who voted no said the district had not sufficiently demonstrated that broad layoff notices were the most responsible or strategic option and argued that the analysis did not fully account for the operational and human consequences of issuing RIF notices at that scale.

— Teresa Liu, Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Arias also noted that his union members are typically the lowest paid in the district.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026