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Living on a ramshackle riverfront house all but sinking into the blue, Liang lives a mostly solitary existence, keeping a joyless job at a waste-management center with only one other visible employee, Hao (Chin Yu-pan).—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025 -
About 10 years ago, the South Campus, in the vicinity of South 10th Street and Alma Avenue, was a somewhat ramshackle spot for the university.—
George Avalos,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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All except a few dozen hardy souls who formed the historical society and began patching the scars of this tumbledown town.—
Roger Naylor,
The Arizona Republic,
22 Mar. 2024
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The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2024
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Griff's was a cozy space inside with a small, rickety wooden patio in the front and a larger one in the back.—
Brianna Griff,
Chron,
13 Jan. 2023
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Instead of rickety outdoor patios with plastic partitions, diners mostly ate in dining rooms.—
Nick Kindelsperger,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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However, its stabilizers are loud, especially the rackety spacebar that popped up aggressively with a loud plastic clack during testing.—
Scharon Harding,
Ars Technica,
23 Feb. 2022
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Whether the rackety Italian state can process this money effectively, however, is a different question.—
Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
18 Aug. 2020
Adjective
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But the findings won’t be able to say how abandoned land should be managed, or whether people should try to manage it at all.—
ByDan Charles,
science.org,
2 Jan. 2025
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A day later his car was found abandoned but undamaged in a parking lot near Congaree National Park about 20 miles southeast of Columbia.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Rattletrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rattletrap. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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