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refuge

[ref-yooj] / ˈrɛf judʒ /


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Protesters took refuge in a cafe where even the eyes of the waiters streamed from the teargas.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Trembling, Matthias took refuge in an old beech trunk that had once been riven by lightning.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Tehran's many parks, usually green lungs in a metropolis often choked by pollution, have become refuges since the fighting began.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

The refuge manager believes that pesticide residues are now building up in the waters of these refuges, being conveyed there by return irrigation flow from heavily sprayed agricultural lands.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Exults on hearing, from his man Will., that the lady has refuged herself at Hampstead.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

Thus refuged, Clo slipped into the wrap, and arranged the floppy hood.

From The Lion's Mouse by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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

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

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


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