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Recent Examples of hovel
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
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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
Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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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
Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovel
Noun
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Mountain Rescue Aspen dispatched a ground team on snowmobiles while CareFlight sent a helicopter again, this time landing about 500 feet from the hut, officials said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
26 Jan. 2026
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One of his wackier ideas involved Italian gondolas, grass huts and servants dressed in Tahitian clothing.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Since then, scientists have been in two camps, championing conflicting theories on the thickness of Europa's ice shell.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Peet’s Coffee was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peet, a German labor-camp survivor whose family had run a coffee-roasting business.—
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Learn about Barbados’ heritage with a rum shack tour or an excursion to a local Rasta community.—
Annie Daly,
Vogue,
3 Jan. 2026
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All are unified by a boardwalk that’s open to the public and lined with bike rentals, a taco shack, platforms for live music and a full-time professional sandcastle builder.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
29 Dec. 2025
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A number of historic buildings and sites includes the working blacksmith shop;, the Price-Thomas and Papini homes; the Mormon, James Marshall and Miner’s cabins; and the Indian bedrock mortar.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Del Gaudio directly experienced Boulder’s 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire, which destroyed 169 homes, her cabin included, in the process of burning 6,181 acres.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Hovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hovel. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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