refuge
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With an open-door policy, the mission has been a refuge for as many a 1,000 people, at one point putting up hundreds of cots nightly in its chapel to accommodate women from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
That is what steadies me and breaks me in the same breath, that a land this rich in what it gives, in shade and figs and refuge and myth, keeps burning while the world half-watches.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
In the climatic entry in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Icelandic trilogy about a boy’s passage through ordeals on land and sea, the battered young hero takes refuge in a village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Trembling, Matthias took refuge in an old beech trunk that had once been riven by lightning.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
His work has led directly to the establishment of national parks and refuges in many lands, including Afghanistan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
Instead of a continuous hard shoulder, there are refuges every mile.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Telemarketing, one of the first refuges of the suddenly indigent, can be dismissed on grounds of personality.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
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 light of that furnace shone through the lattice stonework of the tomb, and in its lurid and ominous glare Adrian beheld the faces of those who refuged with him.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
Have you not often heard, your exiled parents Were refuged in that court, and at that time?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
The ministers of the Lord, that have refuged themselves to this little sanctuary, both increase and honour the number of them that swear, their own callings, and themselves.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
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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