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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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The pope wraps up his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on Monday with a visit to a shelter for elderly people.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Humanitarian conditions in Gaza, including a lack of healthcare and shelter for those living there, remain dire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

On the telly, charities are asking for donations to bring the homeless off the streets into warmth and shelter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

The workers dart through the maze of passages and pipework but there isn't time to reach a shelter - one of the plant's thickest walls will have to do for cover.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

At nine, we hauled a backpack filled with apples and books to read beneath pine trees that provided shelter from the summer heat.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

After more than two years of war and running to shelters with their toddler and newborn son, Nadav Pollak and his wife left Israel for Toronto in July 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

In the towns of Mouriès and Saint-Martin-de-Crau, between Montpellier and Marseille, dozens of residents were accommodated in emergency shelters after the floods hit.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Consumed by the topic, I brought it up at school, only to discover I was the only student completely informed about bomb shelters and their purpose.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

In contrast, birds from the Bounty Islands remain closer to their nesting grounds, where the surrounding waters are more sheltered and may offer more abundant food.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

Under Ms. Bass’s signature program, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

He said their habitat provides woodland, water and room to explore, as well as sheltered areas where they can retreat or move out of public view if they would like some privacy.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The home’s porte cochère once sheltered her Volkswagen after trips to the market.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Then Friday’s high tides wiped the sheltering sand off the nest and exposed the eggs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

Japan and South Korea show an interest in sheltering under the EU umbrella too.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

There, sheltering behind a small bush, was a bird which looked almost the same as the milk bird.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith


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