refuge
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In response, Jewish groups described Zionism as "anti-racism, creating a refuge for Jews in their ancient homeland after millennia of persecution outside it".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
During emergencies, those facilities are converted into places of refuge from fires, floods or other disasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even now some part of him wished they’d never found this refuge.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
Scientists say the discovery strengthens the idea that cemeteries can act as important refuges for biodiversity.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
All of the waters of the wildlife refuges established on these two bodies of water therefore represent the drainage of agricultural lands.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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“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
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
The ministers of the Lord, that have refuged themselves to this little sanctuary, both increase and honour the number of them that swear, their own callings, and themselves.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
The light of that furnace shone through the lattice stonework of the tomb, and in its lurid and ominous glare Adrian beheld the faces of those who refuged with him.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
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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