shelter
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Back at the shelter, he got on the radio to tell his team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The 2025 tax law set the federal estate-tax exclusion—or the amount an individual can shelter from estate taxes—at $15 million for deaths in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
It is likely that underneath any clear spells, particularly in the north and again in the shelter of the easterly breeze, fog will develop through the night.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The footage, from a camera on one of the killed police officers, shows residents of the southern village of Kamyshuvakha going to an underground shelter after the first attack on Monday.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
We were late finding our shelter that morning, but Peter was not too worried because there was a thick mist all around us, and we were well enough hidden.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Rio Tinto has previously faced criticism for destroying two sacred Aboriginal rock shelters in Pilbara which sat above tonnes of iron ore.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Tijuana's migrant shelters, once overflowing, are now closed or barely operating.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The controversy emphasized how California, where shelters are overflowing with animals, failed to regulate private rescue groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
Also there were city buses that stopped at this corner to take people to homeless shelters.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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Some local fog patches are likely first thing, particularly in sheltered rural locations, before lifting to leave spells of sunshine and variable cloud for many.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
HUD’s definition includes sheltered persons living in some kind of temporary housing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
"We spent that night burning our codes and secret documents in a sheltered corner of the garden in the hope that the bonfire would not attract the attention of the North Korean military."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
Japan and South Korea show an interest in sheltering under the EU umbrella too.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
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
People I didn’t know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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