refuge
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Down House, his home in Kent, became his refuge as well as his lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A recession delivers neither, so this time Treasurys may not be the refuge they once were.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Between recovering from her first heartbreak and overcoming burnout from her debut album “Queen of the Clouds,” the remote town has offered her a seaside refuge ever since childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Before becoming an MP she managed a refuge for women and children who were fleeing domestic violence.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Her even temper was like shelter to me, a place to seek refuge.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Tehran's many parks, usually green lungs in a metropolis often choked by pollution, have become refuges since the fighting began.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
Theodore Roosevelt established 52 bird refuges, five national parks and 150 national forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
All of the waters of the wildlife refuges established on these two bodies of water therefore represent the drainage of agricultural lands.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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