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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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The home was imagined as both shelter and command center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is just the latest example of investors taking shelter in tech stocks when interest rates climb.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The findings, published in PeerJ, reveal that the wasps are moving into structures that evolved specifically to shelter protective ant colonies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

During the many air-raid alerts, Iryna Stebnivska stays in the ward where her four-month-old baby is being treated, rather than going to the shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

There was no more argument, not about Marlene, who had disappeared into the night by now, and not about returning home to the shelter.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Countless thousands are still in shelters, trying to sleep or waiting to return, however briefly, to their beds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Steel is vital for producing military equipment, as well as for making shelters and repairing countless buildings damaged by Russia.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Governor Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío said temporary shelters had been opened should residents need to be evacuated.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Deep floodwaters in Bangkok drove thousands of residents into shelters as others scrambled to buy groceries or dry out their homes on Sunday after days of heavy rain inundated markets, roads and residences.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

And excavated deep beneath the surface, where the soil allowed, were shell-proof underground shelters, or dugouts in places thirty or more feet deep, approached down wooden staircases.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

The home’s porte cochère once sheltered her Volkswagen after trips to the market.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

According to the Texas Tribune, Garces Perez asked if he could park somewhere sheltered from traffic.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

A one-star hotel sheltered an entire bike race.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Planned measures include reducing the frequency of bin collections, closing heritage attractions, ending bus routes and - in the case of one council - completely removing sheltered housing support.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

On a later visit to the busy station, we found passengers waiting outside the main entrance or sheltering in underground passageways.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Japan and South Korea show an interest in sheltering under the EU umbrella too.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

While Sharaa praised Russia's "historic role" in Syria and the region, Damascus has repeatedly demanded that it extradite Assad, who has been sheltering in Moscow with his wife since his ouster.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 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

On top of it, some fifteen feet above the river was a sheltering rock formation, its entrance blocked by hedges of old hibiscus.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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