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as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling a small cabin that hikers along the Appalachian Trail use for overnight stays

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as in cottage
an often small house for recreational or seasonal use kept a cabin in the mountains for vacations during skiing season

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Recent Examples of cabin Can wolves break through the flimsy walls of a hunting cabin? Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025 California State Parks, which acquired the motel in 2001, had plans to restore 20 of the cabins for the public to use once more. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 The cockpit's large split windshield and side windows create a bright, panoramic space, a theme that permeates through the rest of the cabin with large windows all over. New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025 The department had been planning to restore 20 of the old motel’s cabins for public use. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for cabin 
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  • Set on 30 acres, the estate has an eclectic mix of tiki huts, limestone waterfalls, koi ponds, and, at its center, a plantation-style mansion with a large tasting room.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2025
  • On his way past the lagoon, Gilligan passes Mrs. Howell, who has been trying to drown herself but never has the nerve, always coming and standing dripping wet in the doorway to the Howells’ hut, Mr. Howell lounging in his hammock with his thoughts of Ginger.
    Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • Your art need not be on the walls, in fact: At this mountain farmland boutique resort, the cottages each come with a canvas that covers a sliding barn door that separates the living area from the bedroom.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Naturally, Wiggins’s first priority was to preserve and enhance the spartan cottage’s existing architecture: the façade of rough-hewn local stone, quaint clapboard walls, restored wood floors, and exposed ceiling beams.
    Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025
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  • Beginning in 1992, the Ontological-Hysteric occupied an upper chamber of the beautiful St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, and Foreman advertised his yearly shows there with blizzards of black-and-white posters, which were wheat-pasted all over the Village every winter.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support advancing the bill in the upper chamber, providing the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster if all Republicans vote in favor.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • Jamaica’s youth divided themselves between the camps — Kartel’s Palestine-referencing Gaza crew and Mavado’s hood-repping Gully clan — and, in certain cases, committed street violence in their names.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands are enduring a cold, rainy winter in tent camps along the windy coast.
    Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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  • The resulting damage can trigger the uncontrolled cell growth that leads to cancer.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Reese's Law requires consumer products with button cell or coin batteries to include warnings about the severe risk of injury from battery ingestion on the product and on the box.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 3 Jan. 2025
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  • Visitors get around the island by foot or on golf carts, and there are a smattering of seafood shacks and souvenir shops.
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The worst damage was to the informal settlements and shacks that are found across Mayotte, Bieuville said.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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  • Art Kit: Separate brushes and paint tubes in the top compartments; notepads and larger supplies fit snugly in the bottom.
    Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This spacious bag has a separate zippered shoe compartment at the bottom for two pairs of shoes, three large wet pockets to separate toiletries and wet clothes, and two inner slip pockets perfect for wallets, small notebooks, or accessories.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
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  • The right side of the chassis houses two 2.5-inch caddies and a 3.5-inch bay for additional storage beyond the three available M.2 slots.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The idea for a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait, where the Pacific Ocean flows into the bay in Northern California, was first floated in 1872 by railroad mogul Charles Crocker.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025

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