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shelter

[shel-ter] / ˈʃɛl tər /




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Many in the temporary shelter are also concerned they will soon be asked to leave when the school resumes classes.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

In Nuwakot, AFP photographers on Tuesday saw people scouring through mud into the rubble of their homes for usable items, some clearing away dirt and stringing up plastic sheeting for shelter in the ruins.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

"I was a war baby so I can remember incendiary bombs dropping on me and we'd have to shelter under the stairs. So the Second World War to me was apocalyptic".

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

That exclusion can shelter up to $250,000 of gain, or up to $500,000 for married couples filing jointly.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

The logs giving him shelter had protected him from the worst of the blast.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Entire communities have been swept away, leaving families homeless and using makeshift shelters as heavy rain lashes down.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Evacuation shelters have been opened at the Carmel Mission Inn and the Cambria Veterans Memorial Building.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The attacks have caused massive delays to train services around the country and traffic jams in Kyiv as the citizens have had to flee to shelters throughout the day.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Hawaii County's Civil Defense Agency said public shelters are available in every county on Big Island.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Still he thought there might be other survivors in underground places like his—the Air Force, for instance, was supposed to have several shelters, all equipped so that the men in them could last for months.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

After recovering from serious head injuries, David attended a school outside the village and believed that separation from former classmates may have sheltered him from some of the trauma experienced by others.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

A one-star hotel sheltered an entire bike race.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, passenger rail remained resilient, sheltered from the oil market on an electric grid powered mainly by coal and renewables.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

This year, its 638 beds became part of a jigsaw puzzle of new beds and vacancies that added up to Skid Row’s increase of 614 sheltered residents.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Yugo said hundreds of homes in Nitung Village were severely damaged by the earthquake, and that residents had been sheltering in makeshift shelters.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

“It is impossible for anyone to collect every pistol, rifle, and piece of weaponry,” said Yahya Hisham, 41, who was displaced from northern Gaza during the war and is now sheltering in Deir al-Balah.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Rather, it was accompaniment: feeding, sheltering, driving, watching, and warning so no one had to move in isolation.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

They threw themselves into its lush green arms and it drew them in, hiding and sheltering them, delivering them from one world to the next.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby




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