rescue
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With roads cut off and transport disrupted, many remained stranded for two nights before rescue efforts reached them.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
"To make the rescue operation easier and faster, the teams are simultaneously using heavy equipment, carrying out blasting, and widening the opening."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Video from the port area, as well as from other locations in Nepal, showed military personnel and rescue workers crawling across the mud to avoid getting bogged down in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
A passenger boat with some 270 people on board has capsized off northern Cyprus, with a search and rescue operation under way.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
They would have to wait for someone in a boat or a helicopter to rescue them.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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India, which has extensive experience in such rescues, has sent an 11-person specialised team.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
I don’t know how to break the cycle of crises needing rescues that lead to more leverage and new crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Major rainfall flooding may prompt many evacuations and rescues," the NWS said, adding that rivers and tributaries "may rapidly overflow their banks in multiple places".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“People expect and need rescues but every rescue is full, full to capacity,” she said in the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
More bodies would be discovered; more rescues would be accomplished.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Several rescued passengers told local media a blast had gone off at the bow of the ferry before it rolled over, and said the boat had an insufficient supply of life-vests.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
A large bear and her three cubs fell into the concrete cistern in Marshall Canyon County Park near the Claremont Wilderness Park’s 5-Mile Loop Trail, where they were rescued late Saturday night, the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The 19-year-old started at Vitality Stadium as the Toffees rescued a late draw and their travelling supporters repeatedly chanted that there would be "a riot" if Armstrong was sold.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
On Saturday, 90 workers were rescued from another hydropower site, according to the chief executive of Nepal’s power producers’ association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Those thoughts seem so strange to me now, now that Namontack has become my friend and Chief Powhatan has rescued us from cold and starvation, and the princess Pocahontas has treated us as her countrymen.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Bouncing down dusty roads, performing at snake-handling parties, rescuing homeowners from vipers and thousands of creatures from nameless obscurity, the snake men appeal to the renegade in us all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Wild Futures said the sanctuary began when it started rescuing woolly monkeys from the pet trade.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Saar traces her habit of rescuing discarded materials to her childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
But chances of finding anyone alive beneath deep rubble dwindles rapidly after a critical 72-hour window for rescuing trapped people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
“She must have meant for us to find you here! That explains why...forget it. Either way, we need your help! Snow White’s been taken by the Wicked Queen, and we’re rescuing her!”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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