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sheltering

noun as in housing

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The same applies whether on the bus, sheltering in a tube station or sorting through the rubble.

This includes the bombing of a theatre in Mariupol which had been sheltering hundreds of people in March 2022 and the killing of hundreds of people in the town of Bucha that month.

From BBC

Meanwhile in flood-affected areas, hundreds are sheltering in temporary accommodation and beginning the slow, arduous task of clearing streets and recovering homes and businesses.

From BBC

Having been displaced from their homes as Israel launched its offensive, thousands of residents were sheltering in and around the hospital, in addition to patients, families and staff.

From Salon

He points out that the protected status of Unrwa schools, clinics and other buildings where hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been sheltering would effectively be lost.

From BBC

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

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