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gymnasium

[jim-ney-zee-uhm] / dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm /


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"There is a risk that the fire could reach homes, but we are deploying all available resources to protect them," he said, with a nearby gymnasium opened to accommodate those evacuating their homes.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

"I felt very ill because I have asthma. I started coughing and I threw up," she told AFP at a gymnasium in the northern Madrid suburb of Alcobendas.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

During the 1950s and 1960s, the team reconstructed a monumental bath gymnasium complex and the largest synagogue in the ancient world.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

The pair were camped out in the basketball gymnasium at Savanna High School in Anaheim.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

By the time Dr. Martin pulled a bald eagle from a crate, inside that very quiet gymnasium, Axel was mesmerized.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

They might serve as rigorous gymnasia for the political imagination.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2014

As recently as 2006, the state's prisons held twice as many prisoners as they were meant to house, and inmate bunks were stacked in gymnasia and day rooms along with regular cells.

From Reuters Oct. 15, 2013

A lot of people see the "Y" only as a chain of economical young men's hotels, a place of gymnasia, swimming pools and evening classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were Italian youth groups from Foggia and Viterbo and Gubbio and Como, a delegation from a Wiesbaden publishing house, some doctors from Canada, and alumni from two gymnasia in Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The state-maintained gymnasia are mostly of recent foundation, but some schools maintained by the various churches have been in existence for three, or sometimes four, centuries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

Emergency shelters were set up in schools and gymnasiums in southwestern France for tourists and residents left wondering what they would return to.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

What calls to mind phys ed and school gymnasiums more palpably than dodgeball?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

After two homeless shelters flooded, the city of San Diego scrambled to transport people to public gymnasiums.

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2024

"I remember that safety inspections were conducted on various gymnasiums after the Qiqihar No. 34 Middle School gymnasium collapsed in July," said a netizen on China's Weibo social media platform.

From Reuters Nov. 7, 2023

Still, a stream of refugees made their way to Yamagata, the prefecture west of Fukushima, where they would sleep on floors in crowded gymnasiums and municipal buildings.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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