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Recent Examples of hovel
But all the characters racing up and down the stairs of his uber-New York walk-up hovel are a howl.
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Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2025
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Liu’s keen naturalist’s eye is ever-present in the portrayal of these multiethnic streets and basement hovels and food courts.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
—Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2025
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Liu’s keen naturalist’s eye is ever-present in the portrayal of these multiethnic streets and basement hovels and food courts.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
—Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovel
Noun
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Bearing the Spanish word for hut, this restaurant isn’t huge.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
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As Negomir enters the hut, the 27-year-old grounds himself by locking onto a single image, such as a tennis ball floating in the mountain air.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Clark was scheduled to start his annual tour of spring training camps on Tuesday.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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After falling behind Busch in one at-bat, Wiggins, in his first big-league camp, battled back to work a full count before getting Busch to whiff at an offspeed pitch low and out of the zone.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Church Avenue is revived, nearly every storefront occupied, jazz clubs mixing with Haitian bistros, home-loan shops, day-care centers, and Jamaican fish shacks.—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Lusine waved us into an unattended shack, sheltered by tarp walls housing a half-dozen of these works in progress.—
Marlise Kast-Myers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Even better, each cabin is assigned a butler who can do just about anything.—
Megan duBois,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate staff, dismiss the expertise of career law-enforcement officials, and fly around the country on a luxury jet with a private rear cabin that is supposed to be used for deportations, according to the Journal.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Hovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hovel. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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