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
We saw crowds of shop workers from Kyiv's biggest department store hanging around the streets during an alert, forced to leave their work place but not fearful enough to seek shelter.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
"This shows that fires not only destroy forests but also deprive animals of shelter and food," Argitoe said.
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
Jonathan squatted beside the shelter and looked at his sister.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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He has designed and installed small concrete shelters for them in the lake itself, and set up his own captive population in a greenhouse at his home in Llanarth.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Locals have expressed safety concerns and some have destroyed shelters and blocked aid being supplied to the migrants.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
AFP journalists saw families arriving in pickup trucks piled with blankets and other belongings, setting up shelters in scrubland exposed to the sun and heat.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
There, I still encounter extended families of a few adults with their dependent children and elderly, living in crude temporary shelters along streams and traveling by canoe and on foot.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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In the last decade Germany has sheltered millions of refugees, mainly from Syria and other troubled countries in the Middle East.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
A one-star hotel sheltered an entire bike race.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"It reminds me of Covid," Djamila, a Parisian retiree said in late June, as city residents sheltered indoors from the heat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, passenger rail remained resilient, sheltered from the oil market on an electric grid powered mainly by coal and renewables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“It’s a place of bugs aplenty! It is sheltered from rains and winds,” the younger spider said.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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In other footage, the Israeli forces appear to have confiscated the canopy under which the settlers were sheltering, while leaving their other equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
While Sharaa praised Russia's "historic role" in Syria and the region, Damascus has repeatedly demanded that it extradite Assad, who has been sheltering in Moscow with his wife since his ouster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
“It is impossible for anyone to collect every pistol, rifle, and piece of weaponry,” said Yahya Hisham, 41, who was displaced from northern Gaza during the war and is now sheltering in Deir al-Balah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Every creature bigger than a bluebottle was sheltering from the heat.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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