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harbor

noun as in place for storing boats in the water

noun as in place for seclusion

verb as in hold in imagination

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Neighbors and authorities harassed her relatives for harboring her; she moved out to spare them further pain.

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Their diet centered on smaller marine mammals including harbor seals and harbor porpoises, and they usually traveled and foraged in groups of about five.

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For Brooks, the dream she confessed to harboring on that Santa Monica beach almost 30 years ago, has most certainly come true.

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If the terrified parrot harbored any plans to continue its performance, they were now abandoned.

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So we packed up and moved the 358 miles east to the Hampton Roads area, the largest ice-free harbor in the United States and home to some of the nation’s most important military installations.

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

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