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 pair were camped out in the basketball gymnasium at Savanna High School in Anaheim.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
He turns just in time to see someone running out of the gymnasium.
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
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
The course of instruction in the gymnasia was more extensive, and embraced special mathematics, logic, rhetoric, and physics.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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
Approximately 15,000 took refuge in schools, gymnasiums and other temporary shelters.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 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 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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