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refuge

[ref-yooj] / ˈrɛf judʒ /


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His organisation has changed its advice to dissidents escaping Russia: the EU is no longer safe, it is better to seek refuge elsewhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

For those now looking to escape, the question is whether the West will offer them refuge — or send them back.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

If all of the 2026 leases offered had been purchased, the less than 700,000 acres would have been a small fraction of the more than 19 million acre wildlife refuge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

A resident of one of the buildings that was hit, who identified herself as Iryna, 69, said she just had time to seek refuge in the toilets after receiving an air raid warning.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Powell’s had always been her private hideaway, her refuge.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Researchers carried out the study in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh, one of the country's last major refuges for saltwater crocodiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, many cities have established "heat refuges", which are air-conditioned public buildings where anyone can go in and escape the worst of the weather.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Tehran's many parks, usually green lungs in a metropolis often choked by pollution, have become refuges since the fighting began.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Booth doesn’t have any business at Grover’s Theatre, but theaters are safe refuges, no matter what city he’s visiting.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Still, at the very bottom of her heart lay two thoughts, in which her hope refuged itself.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Thus refuged, Clo slipped into the wrap, and arranged the floppy hood.

From The Lion's Mouse by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

There I refuged myself till the night came, beat upon by the waves till the breath was well-nigh battered out of my body.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

The long snug harbour of Mahon, which was in the days of canvas wings almost always filled with craft refuging, is now in this era of steam usually tenantless.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Debarred the healthier paths of life, man rushes for employment to the refuging muse; and rightly so, for he finds an employment ornamental and useful still.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay


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