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refuge

[ref-yooj] / ˈrɛf judʒ /


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His organisation has changed its advice to dissidents escaping Russia: the EU is no longer safe, it is better to seek refuge elsewhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Bar manager Yadier Delgado, 24, calls El Bujeco "a refuge for all the young people who still don't know what to do with themselves."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Morel Corp. is building a stately eco dome on a remote Greek island: a refuge for plutocratic preppers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Our investigation has found that other Syrian officials connected to the Tice case have also apparently found refuge abroad.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He didn’t know how to do that, and so once again sought refuge in stories.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

These refuges may help explain Reid's Paradox -- how forests were able to spread so quickly across the region after the last Ice Age ended.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026

All of the waters of the wildlife refuges established on these two bodies of water therefore represent the drainage of agricultural lands.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh's sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.'

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

The Serb students refuged in London had post cards printed of the murderer Princip, on which he was described as a national hero!

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

Of the native population many refuged in the Albanian mountains, where they retained their language.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne


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