harbored

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Harbored at different times by Yemen, Syria, East Germany and communist Hungary, this self-appointed tribune of the oppressed was finally captured in Sudan in 1994, then convicted in France of multiple murders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl Harbored.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harbored in New York at the present moment was a beautiful prospect—a supremely credulous cattleman from the Far West, who had been playing the curb market.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Harbored in the stately edifice of the Royal Exchange, down in the heart of London City, is that ancient and powerful corporation known to seafaring men the world over as Lloyd's.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

With all she fretted, pined, and brooded sore, Harbored each slight vexation, courted grief, Shut out the smiling sunshine from her door, And magnified each care to bas relief.

From Mountain idylls, and Other Poems by King, Alfred Castner