shelter
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The pope wraps up his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on Monday with a visit to a shelter for elderly people.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
One possible shelter is small value stocks—arguably the most neglected corner of the market and surely the most remote from the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
On the telly, charities are asking for donations to bring the homeless off the streets into warmth and shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
If there isn't time to reach the site's main shelter, the workers hide in the foundations of its towering chimneys.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Through the trees, he glimpsed a great dark shadow in the wreck of the shelter.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Peterborough City Council said 34 bus stops could include Living Roofs, mini-gardens planted on top of bus shelters that are made up of wildflowers and other vegetation.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
After more than two years of war and running to shelters with their toddler and newborn son, Nadav Pollak and his wife left Israel for Toronto in July 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
In the towns of Mouriès and Saint-Martin-de-Crau, between Montpellier and Marseille, dozens of residents were accommodated in emergency shelters after the floods hit.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the capital, only 40 percent of schools have shelters with sufficient capacity for all pupils, city hall told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Bucks do not usually dig much in any case, although they will scratch shallow shelters or make use of existing holes where these are available.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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In contrast, birds from the Bounty Islands remain closer to their nesting grounds, where the surrounding waters are more sheltered and may offer more abundant food.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
Ger-y-Nant is a sheltered housing and retirement complex of 13 flats, has non-resident management staff and accepts new residents aged 60 or over, according to an online profile.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Folk musicians performed as pilgrims sheltered from the spring sun under umbrellas.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Under Ms. Bass’s signature program, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It had been sheltered from the wind and the rain in back of the shrine, so I could still see what Maggie had drawn.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Then Friday’s high tides wiped the sheltering sand off the nest and exposed the eggs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
It also found that moving and sheltering the most vulnerable — children in foster care, incarcerated youth and adults, people with disabilities — “lacked a countywide coordination model.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
There, sheltering behind a small bush, was a bird which looked almost the same as the milk bird.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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