shelter
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“It’s important for fosters to get involved so that we have somewhere to keep the cats until they get adopted,” said Mibbby Butler, the adoption coordinator at the no-kill shelter Kitten Rescue Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Discuss any additional necessities and particular care requirements with the shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
We saw crowds of shop workers from Kyiv's biggest department store hanging around the streets during an alert, forced to leave their work place but not fearful enough to seek shelter.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
At the Nuwakot shelter, an AFP reporter saw workers from the United Nations Population Fund distributing "dignity kits" containing sanitary pads, soap, underwear and other basic personal-care items to women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
I watched the landscape turn into a misty blur merging lake and sky, and I realized I could no longer delay building myself a proper shelter.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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He has designed and installed small concrete shelters for them in the lake itself, and set up his own captive population in a greenhouse at his home in Llanarth.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Fostering even for a night or two alleviates that crunch for space, allowing shelters to host cats they might not otherwise be able to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Fostering — temporarily caring for an animal, usually on their route to adoption — alleviates stress on shelters, providing care when they can’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
People packed into overcrowded shelters, contaminated water and damaged health facilities were putting the population at greater risk of disease in the middle of the monsoon season, the UN agency said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Uniforms, posters warning against fifth columnists, two big air-raid shelters dug into the park lawns, and everywhere, surly officialdom.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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In the last decade Germany has sheltered millions of refugees, mainly from Syria and other troubled countries in the Middle East.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Many people sheltered in a nearby gymnasium for safety.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
A one-star hotel sheltered an entire bike race.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
She and Faraj then sheltered inside the building, which was destroyed by a third strike at about 16:25.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
They halted under an elm tree: its leaves though fast turning yellow were still thick, and the ground at its feet was fairly dry and sheltered.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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She was rescued on Thursday from Nepal's devastated area of Syabrubesi, along with her infant son and husband, after sheltering for a freezing night in a school.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
In other footage, the Israeli forces appear to have confiscated the canopy under which the settlers were sheltering, while leaving their other equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“It is impossible for anyone to collect every pistol, rifle, and piece of weaponry,” said Yahya Hisham, 41, who was displaced from northern Gaza during the war and is now sheltering in Deir al-Balah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Rather, it was accompaniment: feeding, sheltering, driving, watching, and warning so no one had to move in isolation.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
She tried not to think of what his life would have been like with this other family, rooting him to the ground, sheltering him in their wings.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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