refuge
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The findings indicate this lost landscape may have served as a welcoming refuge for plants, animals, and possibly humans long before forests became common across Britain and northern Europe.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
Both locations served as a particular kind of refuge, places where I came to new understandings and occasional epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
About 100 homes were evacuated overnight, with residents taking refuge in Lurgan town hall and a number of roads in town centre were closed.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Playing golf is surely a refuge for Woods, but he doesn’t need that now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he—a dogged silence.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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