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as in campgrounds
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins
the arriving national guardsmen were forced to live in a hutment until permanent barracks could be constructed
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as in huts
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling
a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees
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Noun
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Meanwhile, visitors from the campgrounds and Curry Village’s tent cabins were evacuated ahead of the storm earlier this week, according to SFGate.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026 -
It's located at milepost 51 across from Big Meadows, an open area with campgrounds and spring wildflowers.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2026
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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
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The park also has plenty of more remote backcountry campsites.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Feb. 2026
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All of the park’s campsites and the popular Curry Village cabins are also closed through at least February 19 due to high winds and snow.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
18 Feb. 2026
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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
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Continue reading … POLICY PIVOT — NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani to resume clearing homeless encampments after pausing policy.—
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FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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The policy of clearing such encampments has been adopted by mayors for many years, including by Mamdani’s spiritual predecessor Bill de Blasio.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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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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Mesh ventilation at the front and back allows airflow to circulate, which comes in handy when moving between cold cabins and warmer terminals.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2026
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Employees who live in the tent cabins were moved into the Curry Village pavilion.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Hutments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hutments. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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