gymnasium
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Many people sheltered in a nearby gymnasium for safety.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
"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
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The grounds are scruffy, wiring and plumbing are outdated, the gymnasium air conditioning hasn’t worked in years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
The steady flow of people entering the Northern High School gymnasium had slowed to a trickle as the three o’clock start time for graduation arrived.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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
Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were a Roman form of the gymnasia of the Greeks, and the colossal ruins that remain can give but the barest idea of what they must have been at their best.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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
They couldn’t carry guns at school events at stadiums, gymnasiums or auditoriums.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Caucusing begins at 7 p.m. local time in school gymnasiums, community centers and churches as brutal cold and snow in Iowa could affect turnout.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
I had heard about the spacious classrooms, the tall buildings, and the huge, well-equipped gymnasiums.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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