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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
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Inna and her family decided to drive to another village about 60 miles away, where Inna's grandparents had a tiny old hut.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
10 Jan. 2025
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Known for not being precious on set, Winslet illustrates this to Dominus by being interviewed for hours in a chilly beach hut on the English coast (Winslet’s idea).—
Longreads,
Longreads,
19 Dec. 2024
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Feast On Local Delights In Fort-de-France, welcoming local food shacks and easy-going eateries reign, offering simple but delicious and affordable eats that show-off the region’s best recipes.—
Sandra MacGregor,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Wieland family boat is appropriately called the Transformation, and Cicero himself, who in Brown’s novel is listed as Theodore’s favorite author, is repurposed as the proprietor of the town’s seafood shack.—
Joumana Khatib,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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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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Like a mechanical wooden doll dancing to the sea shanty.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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Participating anglers must bring their own bright red flags, (1 foot in diameter or larger) to hang on fishing shanties, according to the DNR.—
Tanya Wildt,
Detroit Free Press,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.—
Sheila Yasmin Marikar,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2024
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Right now, Chuck and Gail’s house still stands with its Spanish tile, twin writers’ sheds, and framed Sylvia Plath drawing, the flames stopped by the choppers’ water bombs half a block from their gate.—
Anna Journey,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Also, make sure to clear combustibles and vegetation around fences, sheds, outdoor furniture and play structures.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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But years later, in 1988, her husband was killed in another round of fighting in the camp.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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The money is going toward meals, toiletries, gear and replacing a shower facility at one of the camps, Lewis said.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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