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Recent Examples of hovels
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovels
Noun
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Each victim was hoisted from the field by helicopter and transported to Sno-Cats staged at the Frog Lake huts before being taken to the sheriff’s staging area, where the chief deputy coroner was waiting.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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The Frog Lake huts, which opened to the public only five years ago after nearly a century of private ownership, have become a popular destination.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
21 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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Many of the children have grown up in camps after ISIS lost territorial control, and some are now approaching fighting age, raising fears about future radicalization and recruitment.—
Efrat Lachter , Trey Yingst,
FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Who needs lobster rolls when this 10-minute shrimp roll is a delicious reminder of shoreside seafood shacks?—
Susan Hall Mahon,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2026
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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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“Hovels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hovels. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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