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sheltered

adjective as in shaded

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adjective as in protected

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Back in January, it reportedly sheltered in the English Channel after suffering a mechanical failure during a storm.

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They were somewhat sheltered by the forest’s canopy of leaves, but the day grew warmer by the quarter hour.

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In the most recent attack, employees managed to contain the fire to localise the damage, and the staff, who had sheltered in a workshop, were unscathed.

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"It's going to make a huge difference," Emma Hardy, the Minister for Water and Flooding, said of the ban as we sheltered from the rain at Minworth.

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"About 75,000 people were sheltered in 100 of our premises across the Gaza Strip," he told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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