refuge
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Bar manager Yadier Delgado, 24, calls El Bujeco "a refuge for all the young people who still don't know what to do with themselves."
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 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
Our investigation has found that other Syrian officials connected to the Tice case have also apparently found refuge abroad.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
For decades, that made the Scott a rare refuge for salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He didn’t really care about the refuge, but he felt that if he could keep her talking, it might calm her down.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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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
"In the surrounding chalk grassland, they can discover how plants and insects cope with extreme heat, and why shade, varied vegetation and connected habitats can provide vital refuges for wildlife."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mobile home parks in Carson are among the last refuges of affordable housing for many residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
These particular refuges occupy critical positions in the conservation of western waterfowl.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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“People are homeless, they have been refuged to the mountains.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
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
A hungry wolf had thinned the fold, Safely he refuged on the wold; And, as in den secure he lay, The thefts of night regaled his day.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
Harold said as clearly as I speak now, and he refuged himself on Hugh’s sound shoulder, and stretched out, and lay all still.’
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
The Serb students refuged in London had post cards printed of the murderer Princip, on which he was described as a national hero!
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
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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