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sheltered

adjective as in shaded

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Weak match

adjective as in protected

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I grew up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, where we lived in a white farmhouse on a ranch that sheltered a variety of rescue animals.

After a full year, not only was the change from homelessness to permanent housing not statistically significant, but so was the shift from unsheltered to sheltered.

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The insurgents forcibly emptied an emergency camp that had sheltered about half a million displaced people.

Another place investors have sheltered from tariff turmoil and U.S. economic worries recently is international markets.

I was really sheltered, you know, “I’m over here in Bible study” kind of s—.

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