shelter
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A federal judge has ordered New York City to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement the names of some male residents in a homeless shelter in the Bronx.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Residents used pots and pans to clear water from their flooded tents, with some saying they were left without shelter.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Witnesses told AFP they saw people seeking shelter in shops and restaurants in the usually bustling streets around the Main Square.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
He sought to preserve a sense of order in the physical space of his little shelter, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The shelter was shaped like half a tent, with an opening at one end.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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More than 1.9 million people have been displaced, many of them multiple times, and 1.2 million of them are currently living in tents or makeshift shelters, it says.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
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
For more than four decades, the 1736 Family Crisis Center has offered care for victims of domestic violence, running shelters and crisis hotlines in L.A. and Orange counties on what today is a $15-million budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Still he thought there might be other survivors in underground places like his—the Air Force, for instance, was supposed to have several shelters, all equipped so that the men in them could last for months.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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Folk musicians performed as pilgrims sheltered from the spring sun under umbrellas.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
The family spent £15,000 installing new sprinkler systems and huge fans to cool the cattle in their sheds when they sheltered from the heat outside.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
HUD’s definition includes sheltered persons living in some kind of temporary housing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The home’s porte cochère once sheltered her Volkswagen after trips to the market.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
They could find no sheltered place to make a fire that would not be seen so they made none.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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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
Foreign students at several international schools were shaken after spending part of the afternoon sheltering in place in windowless rooms, said a mother who spoke to parents at several of the schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
People I didn’t know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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