shelter
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More than half of the respondents said it was harder to find shelter after the fires than it had been before.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Revocable living trusts offer no shelter from creditors.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Tiffany Crear said she walked out from a South L.A. congregate shelter about nine months ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The couple had arrived just hours earlier at the Mount Carmel Medical Center and were taken straight to the facility's underground shelter, carved into the mountainside.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Too late, he remembered the neat bundles of dried deer meat, forgotten at the shelter.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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