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Rather than simply “hunkering down” until 2028, organizations face fundamental structural damage that could take decades to repair.

At the height of the raids, community groups organized to bring food to immigrants who had hunkered down in their homes.

Without time to evacuate, university officials instructed her and hundreds of other students to hunker down on campus.

Detectives went hunting for the Help Wanted ad, hunkered over the microfiche machine at the newspaper’s downtown office.

Compared with other campuses, where protesters had ransacked buildings and hunkered down in encampments, George Mason had been relatively quiet over the past year, he said.

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

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