refuge
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The department did not immediately respond to a request Sunday for comment about where the eagles took up refuge.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
“I had to seek refuge, travel by ambulance across borders.”
From Salon • May 27, 2026
In total, nearly a hundred refuge sites have been mapped out and incorporated into operational evacuation plans designed to quickly guide people to safe places.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
“Viewed positively, what the American revolution did was to give the common man a voice, a veto, elbow room and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of his ‘betters.’
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The black world of blindness was a refuge; better to be there than to see with strange shamed eyes the old world that had been so bright.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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