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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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Humanitarian conditions in Gaza, including a lack of healthcare and shelter for those living there, remain dire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

On the telly, charities are asking for donations to bring the homeless off the streets into warmth and shelter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Rebels shelter in foxholes, camouflaged among thousands of oil wells dug in an unregulated practice dating back centuries.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Much of the stickiness in core inflation came from categories which operate almost independently of oil prices, including shelter costs such as rent and labor-intensive services such as healthcare and car insurance.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

He grabbed one of the alders he had used for their shelter and pulled it past the redwood roots.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

This provides enough electricity to charge phones and run lights, fans and even electric razors, small comforts that have become a luxury for families still living in tents and shelters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Rio Tinto has previously faced criticism for destroying two sacred Aboriginal rock shelters in Pilbara which sat above tonnes of iron ore.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Peterborough City Council said 34 bus stops could include Living Roofs, mini-gardens planted on top of bus shelters that are made up of wildflowers and other vegetation.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

After more than two years of war and running to shelters with their toddler and newborn son, Nadav Pollak and his wife left Israel for Toronto in July 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

It had a bench and one of those plastic dome shelters.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

In contrast, birds from the Bounty Islands remain closer to their nesting grounds, where the surrounding waters are more sheltered and may offer more abundant food.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

With some 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered Allied airmen and, after the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day in 1944, joined the fight against the occupying German forces.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Folk musicians performed as pilgrims sheltered from the spring sun under umbrellas.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Under Ms. Bass’s signature program, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

She was pretty sure her sheltered status was at an end.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Then Friday’s high tides wiped the sheltering sand off the nest and exposed the eggs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Japan and South Korea show an interest in sheltering under the EU umbrella too.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It also found that moving and sheltering the most vulnerable — children in foster care, incarcerated youth and adults, people with disabilities — “lacked a countywide coordination model.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Those that did explode did not manage to destroy German defenses dug deep into the hillsides, sheltering waiting German troops.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman


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