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She estimates that there are over a billion squatters in the world.squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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In a few jurisdictions, squatters can gain legal title to property if they meet a series of requirements for a long enough period of time.
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The idea caught on in a big way, and trailer parks across the country had quickly evolved into "stacks" like this one—strange hybrids of shantytowns, squatter settlements, and refugee camps. (source)squatter = of people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I'd ever met, and that made her laugh. (source)squatter = someone who lives in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who'd come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries. (source)squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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Some families had no choice but to bury their dead in a courtyard or at the sheltered margin of a road, it being impossible to reach a proper graveyard, and so impromptu burial grounds grew up, one extinguished body attracting others, in much the same way that the arrival of one squatter on a disused patch of government land can give rise to an entire slum. (source)squatter = someone who lives in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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He was a glorified squatter, but no one knew it at the time.† (source)
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And we found another house on the edge of your complex, had some squatters. (source)squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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Even at this distance, Harry had a funny feeling he recognised the walk of the squattest of them, who seemed to be leading the group.† (source)
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For various reasons I was apprehensive about accommodations, and ready to make my excuses in case they involved anything like squatter conditions or sleeping on the floor.† (source)
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He describes for her the shell-blasted schools, the squatters living in roofless buildings, the beggars, the mud, the fickle electricity, but it's like describing music. (source)
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At the base of a column was a large box, apparently the home of an out-of-work squatter.† (source)
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The house was looking more and more like a place that squatters lived in, instead of what it was: a home that had been in Dad's family for three generations. (source)
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We didn't want to start training and run up on some homeless squatter.† (source)
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When they go back to the squatters' camps they'll be hard to handle. (source)
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Was that the squatter's house we'd visited in Washington?† (source)
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Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter who had already reserved it. (source)squatter = someone who has taken legal claim of an internet destination solely for the purpose of reselling it
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Mostly they lay on their beds, calling to each other from their adjoining cells, sounding like drum squatters. (source)squatters = a type of insect
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