shelter
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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
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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
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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
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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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