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 And though the devastation wrought by last year’s fire was unprecedented in its scale, the Schneiders remain optimistic about the future of their beloved enclave and its plucky local paper. —

Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026 Yes, many of the menus are tucked inside the tony enclaves of Newport Beach, but a handful of others cities, ones that don’t hug our sapphire coastline, are also serving up serious pinkies-up energy. —

Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026 Sam, a food stylist, concedes that being in a wealthy suburban enclave may have led her to be a little more brash than usual. —

Nora Deligter, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2026 Azerbaijan has said one of the drones hit the terminal building of an airport, while the other fell close to a school in a nearby village in the Nakhchivan enclave. —

Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enclave

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Multiple media outlets have reported that investigators may be examining Carvalho’s involvement in the district’s past contract with AllHere, the now-defunct education technology startup behind LAUSD’s AI chatbot initiative.

— Teresa Liu, Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
Trump carried the district by a wide margin in the 2024 presidential election, making the GOP the heavy favorite to retain the seat.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2026