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enclave

noun

Definition of 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 So how did these two polarizing figures end up on the same guest list at a posh East Coast enclave in the first place? — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026 The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026 The band formed in 2023 when Erik and Tommy met Rowan at the local middle school and got its name after Molino Avenue in their hometown of Mill Valley, a musical enclave where Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana and Sammy Hagar have lived. — Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 In a state with so many remote enclaves, many of those patients are likely to wind up in the care of LifeFlight of Maine, a nonprofit critical care transport organization with helicopters, a plane, and ambulances. — Daniel Payne, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enclave

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While psychic readers have storefronts in other parts of the city, this change applies to the Community Business and Boulevard Business zoning districts, which previously did not permit soothsaying.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
In March, the district asked developers to apply for the chance to build housing at the two campuses.

— Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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On a recent swampy day in July, a lone tourist was posing for a photo in front of one of the historic townhouses along Columbia Heights, the most picturesque street in Brooklyn’s most picturesque neighborhood.

— Bridget Read, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2026
Visible from outside the museum as much as from within, it was commissioned in 1952 by collectors and LACMA benefactors Sidney and Frances Brody for their midcentury home in LA’s Holmby Hills neighborhood.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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