shelter
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Changes in movement can also affect how much energy an animal uses and whether it can reach food, shelter, or other important resources.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Following the relentless spate of Russian attacks, Zaporizhzhia city council met in an underground shelter to discuss the worsening situation.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
This shelter will come in addition to the federal allowance on estate taxes, which is now up to $30 million for a couple.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the Patriot shortage is forcing them to heed the government’s warnings and seek shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
At nine, we hauled a backpack filled with apples and books to read beneath pine trees that provided shelter from the summer heat.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The United Nations organization will provide around 500,000 tons of food to remote areas and the makeshift shelters that have sprung up across the quake zone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
New shelters known as hibernacula are being created using peat, tree material and brash to provide safe overwintering areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Apostol said they provide emotional and psychological support at shelters and wherever survivors need help -- on a bench, sitting on a low wall, or on a chair or stool, always outdoors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
They exchange jokes in air-raid shelters, and help elderly residents evacuate damaged buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Tsukiko insists she does not mind the rain but Isobel shelters her anyway, grateful for the company.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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It feels sheltered, like sitting inside a very tall greenhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
His wife, Tetiana, a doctor, was reminded of how people sheltered in the London Underground during German bombings in World War II. “You feel like a character in a movie about Britain,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
But there are still major problems, including uneven flooring, and they are now desperate to move out of their once-beloved home and into sheltered accommodation.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Specifically, it noted "the high number of persons with disabilities enrolled in sheltered workshops and the low rate of transition to the open labour market".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
At the top was a wide space sheltered by the canopy leaves of all the trees that grew together for the big tree.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
In implementing the law, the government further defined "harm" to include "significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding or sheltering."
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Over the past four years, residents have developed sheltering routines, which range from huddling in apartment corridors to rushing underground for greater safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Fatalities jumped by more than 300 from Friday to 2,954, following the June 24 disaster that has left thousands homeless in the streets and sheltering in camps.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The road workers sheltering beneath a tanker had shrugged off the danger.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Mary Lou had run off into the night, hiding in the sheltering stalks of the cornfields until it was safe to face the world again.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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