refuge
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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
Because no herrerasaurians have been discovered elsewhere from such a late point in the Triassic, scientists think the region that is now the American Southwest may have been their final refuge.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Her friend Linsey tells the documentary that Charmain had several relationships, some volatile, and she briefly ended up in a women's refuge.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
But we aren’t a refuge for those unwilling to do the hard work of reforming their own states.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
They went accordingly to Delphi, the Greeks’ refuge in time of trouble, to ask the god if they could hope for a child.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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