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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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The migrants struggled to find water or food, let alone shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

But now the Yellow Line — the demarcation indicating the limit of Israel’s military zone in Gaza — was barely 100 yards from Ashraf Al-Louh’s shelter.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

AFP reporters in Ceuta in the days following the influx saw unaccompanied children suffering limited access to food, water, shelter and sanitation.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Patrick Lewis volunteers there after using the shelter himself when he was homeless.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

All I knew then was that we had to get to the shelter fast, as we had been taught.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Netting and wire meshes around infrastructure can be useful against drones, and hardened shelters can help protect resources that have to be on the surface, such as aircraft, fuel, personnel and equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

But the appeals court noted that the existing injunction specifically allows construction of underground bunkers, bomb shelters and military and medical infrastructure to continue, along with aboveground work strictly necessary for security.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Adelkoff has led the 1736 FCC since 1984, growing it from an organization with a $200,000 annual budget into a nonprofit operating six shelters, multiple hotlines and dozens of volunteers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

However, the UN said about 360,000 other people remained displaced across Lebanon, including 26,000 living in government shelters.

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

Another of the rare adults among the migrants camped out in the complex, a woman of 45, sheltered nearby, her face burned red by the sun.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

It feels sheltered, like sitting inside a very tall greenhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

By pulling these animals out of their sheltered habitats and keeping them moving in circles, streetlights may leave them vulnerable to predators while also wasting energy needed for survival.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

His wife, Tetiana, a doctor, was reminded of how people sheltered in the London Underground during German bombings in World War II. “You feel like a character in a movie about Britain,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Below them, in a sheltered depression like a moon crater, stood a ring of broken black marble columns surrounding a dark stone altar.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

Rather, it was accompaniment: feeding, sheltering, driving, watching, and warning so no one had to move in isolation.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Authorities will continue to enforce its immigration laws, she added, but warned that protesters should not conduct unauthorised searches of homes and businesses that are suspected of sheltering undocumented migrants.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

The crowd of sheltering refugees was gone now; the station nearly deserted.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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