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refuge

[ref-yooj] / ˈrɛf judʒ /


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Down House, his home in Kent, became his refuge as well as his lab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Between recovering from her first heartbreak and overcoming burnout from her debut album “Queen of the Clouds,” the remote town has offered her a seaside refuge ever since childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the UK, their last known refuge is Wales' largest natural lake - Llyn Tegid - in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

She completed an accident-free somersault, then rolled over to lie on her stomach, searching for her bunny, who had taken refuge under the couch.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Tehran's many parks, usually green lungs in a metropolis often choked by pollution, have become refuges since the fighting began.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

The refuge manager believes that pesticide residues are now building up in the waters of these refuges, being conveyed there by return irrigation flow from heavily sprayed agricultural lands.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

The Serb students refuged in London had post cards printed of the murderer Princip, on which he was described as a national hero!

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Of the native population many refuged in the Albanian mountains, where they retained their language.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay




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