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While she waits in a safe house in Kabul, a 30-minute walk to the airport, I have contacted every lead possible to get her on a flight out.

Even though I’m staying in my safe house, actually I’m not safe.

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They were rescued and extracted by the network and were being held in a safe house while the work was being done with foreign partners to try and get them out.

I spent nights full of terror inside those safe houses, when rumors were flying about people who might have been seen, locations that might have been revealed, dangers that might have been heightened – I felt that with them.

He had people helping him find these safe houses or whatever.

The year before that Alfredo had been taken alive in a police raid on a safe house in Culiacán.

There, Artichoke interrogation experiments were taking place at a safe house called Haus Waldorf.

When Richie showed up, they told him the money was in an apartment a few doors down that the gang used as a safe house.

From a safe house it had set up earlier in Abbottabad, the CIA continued to watch the compound.

On Friday, public-security agents detained He Peirong, an activist who drove him from his village to a safe house.

So far as I could learn, the Stopfords had given no ornaments to state or church, but theirs was pre-eminently a safe house.

But she thinks only of the sailors drowning, and gnashing their teeth for hate of the "warm safe house."

She generally regards the school as a safe house of detention, a sort of day nursery of larger growth.

Emma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.

All the officers, who have pledged themselves to assist my undertaking, are concealed in a safe house rented for this purpose.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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