refuge
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The hot weather, which has kept people indoors and forced those without air conditioning to seek refuge at cooling centers, is expected to last through much of the week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Before becoming an MP she managed a refuge for women and children who were fleeing domestic violence.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
He landed screaming in the dust, and then scrambling to his feet he ran to find refuge behind two of his coyotes.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Scientists say the discovery strengthens the idea that cemeteries can act as important refuges for biodiversity.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
These particular refuges occupy critical positions in the conservation of western waterfowl.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Thus refuged, Clo slipped into the wrap, and arranged the floppy hood.
From The Lion's Mouse by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
Have you not often heard, your exiled parents Were refuged in that court, and at that time?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
There I refuged myself till the night came, beat upon by the waves till the breath was well-nigh battered out of my body.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
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