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Recent Examples of wickiup
Part tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun.
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Popular Science, 28 May 2020
The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.
—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Popular Science, 28 May 2020
The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.
—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickiup
Noun
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Other kinds of algorithms underlie the repeating sequences of bent wood arcs that make up Native American wigwams, canoes and cradles.—
Audrey G. Bennett,
The Conversation,
10 Aug. 2023
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a miniature wigwam at a Boy Scout camp in New York State in 1933.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
19 Apr. 2023
Noun
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The group going above the hut to the left will ascend higher to a saddle below Mount Kemmel and ski a wide, pristine pitch called Springboard.—
Jesse James McTigue,
Outside Online,
20 Mar. 2025
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The new Gathering Grounds coffee hut that opened March 8 is looking to create a new identity from the previous businesses that occupied the space, said owner Danica Strand.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ginny Wiley, now in her 80s, grew up in her grandfather’s store, a wooden shack called Wiley’s Bait and Tackle, and took it over decades later.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2025
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This island leans more rural, with a heavy agriculture presence and a few bonafide seafood shacks.—
Kayleigh Ruller,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.—
Matt Krupnick,
ProPublica,
14 Oct. 2024
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The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.—
Alex Rhoades,
NBC News,
3 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Those who stayed on Goose Island upgraded from shanties to frame cottages and two-story houses.—
Robert Loerzel,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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To a soundtrack of orchestral chants or sea shanties, fanciful motifs flow from his old-school dip pen, conjuring scenes that hover between architectural ruins, theater sets, and sylvan dreamscapes.—
Mel Studach,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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An adventurous death trip that will magically drive them both from their hovel to the wild mountains and up to New York, from suffocating reality to absolute freedom.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes,
10 Oct. 2024
Noun
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While officials, contractors and builders watched, fires were lit in the wood chips in the flower beds in front of the sheds, then large fans were turned on to mimic conditions during the hot, windy weather of a Red Flag fire event.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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The shed hunters found 14 sheds during their two-hour excursion.—
Brad Dokken,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Tyler Scott, a fourth-round pick in 2023, caught only one pass last season and will be challenged to hang onto his spot in training camp.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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While the four other spots on the starting line are spoken for, the competition between Corbett and Mays will be one of the notable battles to watch in training camp.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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