shelter
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But working at an animal shelter offered some comfort and helped me better understand our feline friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In a written statement, the City of Malibu said it ordered the evacuation of the houses in the street and set up a temporary shelter for evacuees.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Firefighters rushed to the base following the blasts, and residents were evacuated to a temporary shelter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
The group became stranded in Mud Creek Canyon and were forced to create a small encampment, with little to no shelter, in the steep drainage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The friends tried to make sure Brian had shelter.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Evacuation shelters for both fires have been opened at the Carmel Mission Inn and Cambria Veterans Memorial Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
After days of searching shelters and mortuaries, relatives of some of the missing lost hope and began conducting last rites.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The attacks have caused massive delays to train services around the country and traffic jams in Kyiv as the citizens have had to flee to shelters throughout the day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
All of them — RVs, makeshift shelters, a few shipping containers and one compound of discarded school bungalows — fall within the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
As for the dog, I always got my pets at animal shelters, so I called the Wasilla shelter and was told—perfect, really—that they had a three-legged border collie that needed a good home.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
After recovering from serious head injuries, David attended a school outside the village and believed that separation from former classmates may have sheltered him from some of the trauma experienced by others.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
A one-star hotel sheltered an entire bike race.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
During the Cold War, the deep and sheltered waters of the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay hosted aircraft carriers and submarines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This year, its 638 beds became part of a jigsaw puzzle of new beds and vacancies that added up to Skid Row’s increase of 614 sheltered residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Even in sheltered areas, under an umbrella of conifers, the snow was nearly knee deep and tedious to churn through.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Yugo said hundreds of homes in Nitung Village were severely damaged by the earthquake, and that residents had been sheltering in makeshift shelters.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
It also provided the Yemeni militants with intelligence, target lists including Saudi ports and energy facilities, and advice on sheltering from Saudi retaliation, the officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
More than 300 relief camps have been set up in the state, sheltering over 10,000 people, after rains triggered landslides and swollen rivers breached their banks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The city and county secured $1.6 million for emergency housing relocation through Airbnb and housing nonprofits, sheltering more than 1,300 residents and hundreds of pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
As the children looked up, sheltering their eyes from the lashing raindrops, they saw an aircraft unlike any they’d seen before—ungainly, six-legged, dark, and totally silent.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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