refuge
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Maybe his family table became your refuge in the year after your wife left you, and no amount of money could ever repay him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Both locations served as a particular kind of refuge, places where I came to new understandings and occasional epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Meghan also visited a women's refuge in Melbourne, where she served plates of frittata to people at the centre.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
That same evening, panicked residents of Tehran tried to flee north to the shores of the Caspian Sea, where many had sought refuge during the very first days of the war.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in a 50-by-125-mile area in southeastern Kansas.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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