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tent

noun as in portable canvas shelter

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Finally, the future arrives in the Andes, at the ranch Hacienda El Porvenir, which translates as “the future,” where you’ll spend 24 hours venturing no more than 30 feet from a tent, alone, with a journal.

Over the course of 16 days, it’s what kept my key items—a sleeping bag, pillow, tent, cell phone, and journal—dry.

Maghsoodnia notes that having separate buildings, tents or dorms to quarantine sick students is a big challenge for universities.

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Investing thousands of dollars in tents, fans and evaporative cooling equipment, they’ve managed to hide from the sun, keep social distancing and maintain business.

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Give people a peek inside of the tent who think they know but don’t know.

From Ozy

Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.

But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.

Santorum embraced a more pragmatic big-tent approach to these candidates.

The smaller “Flood Wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.

The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.

The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.

It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.

They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.

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

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