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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

Kyselova, an arts-and-crafts teacher, considers it a lucky day, even though she has just taught eight lessons in a bomb shelter, because her friend got two tickets for the musical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mutti and I were trying to help him up, doing all we could to persuade him that we had to get back to the shelter.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Along with international donors, the company is preparing winter evacuation packs, mobile shelters and bus services in areas where evacuations become too frequent.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“When schools are destroyed, when bus shelters are targeted, when transport is attacked, we seek the civil liability of the parents,” Darmanin told local radio station RTL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

Nearly 4,900 people have been evacuated to shelters, with around 52,000 households affected by the floods, which prompted a disaster declaration across the capital, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The shelters along this section of trail were mostly new and spanking clean.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

"It reminds me of Covid," Djamila, a Parisian retiree said in late June, as city residents sheltered indoors from the heat.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

There was a small bench beyond the grove of bushes, sheltered from the rest of the yard and the house.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

"There is no ceasefire, there is nothing," Abu Ahmed, a displaced man who had been sheltering nearby, told Reuters news agency.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

It also provided the Yemeni militants with intelligence, target lists including Saudi ports and energy facilities, and advice on sheltering from Saudi retaliation, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

As the children looked up, sheltering their eyes from the lashing raindrops, they saw an aircraft unlike any they’d seen before—ungainly, six-legged, dark, and totally silent.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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