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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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He said he will lead with a “gentle touch” and plans to use the court system only as a “last resort” to leverage people into accepting services or shelter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Baja California Sur's governor Victor Castro, on a shelter visit, told AFP that local infrastructure has suffered "little damage."

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Chadchart visited a temporary shelter on Saturday night in a school in the Kheha Romklao area, where he said about 1,000 people were evacuated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Eighty-five households were evacuated following the incident and urged to shelter at a nearby leisure centre.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Wolf had gone off on his nightly wanderings, and the only signs of life in the camp were the silent Ravens guarding the defenses, and the rumble of snores from Oslak’s shelter.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Going into greater detail than earlier reports, Nardello & Co. included summaries of site visits to dozens of shelters and permanent housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Steel is vital for producing military equipment, as well as for making shelters and repairing countless buildings damaged by Russia.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Thousands of Bangkok residents awoke in shelters on Sunday after flooding triggered by days of heavy rain in the Thai capital inundated homes and roads, with some starting to dry out their homes and belongings.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed legislation that seeks to remove abused and neglected animals from crowded municipal shelters during their owners’ criminal cases, according to the bill’s backers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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

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

According to the Texas Tribune, Garces Perez asked if he could park somewhere sheltered from traffic.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Attending film school on the East Coast was, as she puts it, a necessary experience, because she grew up rather sheltered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The road’s found its way back down near the river and we find a reasonably sheltered spot twixt the two.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

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

"There is no ceasefire, there is nothing," Abu Ahmed, a displaced man who had been sheltering nearby, told Reuters news agency.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Those that did explode did not manage to destroy German defenses dug deep into the hillsides, sheltering waiting German troops.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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