refuge

John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast of Portland with no cars and barely two dozen homes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

During emergencies, those facilities are converted into places of refuge from fires, floods or other disasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the UK, their last known refuge is Wales' largest natural lake - Llyn Tegid - in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Jo bore up very well till the last flutter of blue ribbon vanished, when she retired to her refuge, the garret, and cried till she couldn’t cry any more.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Researchers carried out the study in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh, one of the country's last major refuges for saltwater crocodiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

"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

Telemarketing, one of the first refuges of the suddenly indigent, can be dismissed on grounds of personality.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

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

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

Exults on hearing, from his man Will., that the lady has refuged herself at Hampstead.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

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