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Recent Examples of shanties
This style blends metal subgenres with traditional sea shanties, accordions — accordions are rare in metal, bear in mind — tin whistles and steel drums.
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Sofia Goldstein, SPIN, 2 June 2026
Check out Fishtown, home to historic fishing shanties that now house cool small businesses.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
His voice conjured cannons and sea shanties.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
From an assessment of Stipe’s fecund beard, the two moved on to the subject of ship captains and sea shanties.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Still, the rich history behind the day of laughter and libations remains behind the surge of shamrocks and drunken shanties.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
Trapped at home, staring at their computers and phones, shanties offered people a common, joyful cause.
—Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026
While outreach workers will be hitting homeless encampments throughout the city, encouraging people to go to shelters during the storm, the city will not be tearing down the makeshift shanties the homeless have built before Sunday’s storm, Mamdani said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
Even Venezuela’s shanties were made with solid construction materials such as brick and concrete, made cheap by a strong bolivar, Venezuela’s currency.
—The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Sofia Goldstein, SPIN, 2 June 2026
Check out Fishtown, home to historic fishing shanties that now house cool small businesses.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
His voice conjured cannons and sea shanties.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
From an assessment of Stipe’s fecund beard, the two moved on to the subject of ship captains and sea shanties.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Still, the rich history behind the day of laughter and libations remains behind the surge of shamrocks and drunken shanties.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
Trapped at home, staring at their computers and phones, shanties offered people a common, joyful cause.
—Longreads, 5 Mar. 2026
While outreach workers will be hitting homeless encampments throughout the city, encouraging people to go to shelters during the storm, the city will not be tearing down the makeshift shanties the homeless have built before Sunday’s storm, Mamdani said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
Even Venezuela’s shanties were made with solid construction materials such as brick and concrete, made cheap by a strong bolivar, Venezuela’s currency.
—The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shanties
Noun
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Tour du Mont Blanc, France/Italy/Switzerland — Circles Mont Blanc through three countries over 8 to 10 days for reasonably fit walkers, with a mix of catered huts and village stops.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
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Tour du Mont Blanc — Circles Mont Blanc through France, Italy and Switzerland over 8 to 10 days, mixing catered huts with village stops.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
Noun
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While this area of Morgan Park just west of I-57 is rife with new development, the houses where the fire broke out were older shacks — one a brick structure, the other a frame structure with siding.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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Gangmasters often put workers in overcrowded shacks; workers die of not just killings like this one, but also of suicide or accidental fires or extreme cold and heat.—
Matteo Moschella,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Then there’s the financial (and administrative) obligation of patching together camps that cost hundreds of dollars per week, per child.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
4 June 2026
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These camps focus on helping kids develop useful skills including local wildlife tracking, science topics, robotics and developing video games.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Myriad cabins and lodges, such as Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, provide a cozy basecamp between mountain outings.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2026
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Staff work out of greenhouses, laboratories and cabins in urban areas like Baltimore and in more rural offices near the 193 million acres of national forest and grassland that the agency manages.—
Chiara Eisner,
NPR,
6 June 2026
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“Shanties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shanties. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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