enclave

as in district
an area with people who are different in some way from the people in the areas around it The city has a large Chinese enclave. one of the city's wealthy enclaves

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Recent Examples of enclave Many were kidnapped from their kibbutz communities — and from a techno music festival — near the Palestinian enclave. Npr Staff, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025 The start of the ceasefire will be a reprieve for Gazans who have endured 15 months of relentless Israeli strikes, which have reduced much of the enclave to rubble. Mick Krever, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025 Israel’s military has decimated Gaza, pulverizing much of the enclave’s infrastructure over the last 15 months. Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Jan. 2025 If successful, the ceasefire would halt fighting that has razed much of heavily urbanised Gaza, killed over 46,000 people, and displaced most of the tiny enclave's pre-war population of 2.3 million, according to Gaza authorities. Andrew Mills, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for enclave 

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“Enclave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enclave. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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