hiding place
noun
: a place where someone or something is hidden or can be hidden
My favorite hiding place when I was a kid was in the attic.
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During the incident, a woman and her daughter had just returned home in another vehicle when Conner and a second man popped out from a hiding place and attacked them.
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Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Visitors follow Otto Frank’s five-month journey back to Amsterdam after liberation, returning to a city that had lost around 70,000 Jewish residents and to his family’s hiding place, mostly emptied by the Nazis.
—Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The agent shot at Routh, who was rousted from his hiding place and tried to escape before he was apprehended.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
After just over two hours of deliberations, the jury of seven women and five men found Routh guilty on all five counts, which included three federal gun charges and an assault on the Secret Service agent who rousted him from his hiding place.
—Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
In October 1941 a 14-year-old Jewish boy named Yitzhak Rudashevski sat in a crowded hiding place in Vilna Poland, hastily writing in his diary.
—Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
The panicked gang leader later took to social media to appeal to cops from a new hiding place.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The prominent mention of Frank, who died of disease in a Nazi concentration camp after her family’s hiding place was betrayed, adds to a growing discourse about whether ICE’s operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota can be compared to the Nazis’ tactics in rooting out Jews during the Holocaust.
—Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
But against Leeds, there was no hiding place.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Visitors follow Otto Frank’s five-month journey back to Amsterdam after liberation, returning to a city that had lost around 70,000 Jewish residents and to his family’s hiding place, mostly emptied by the Nazis.
—Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The agent shot at Routh, who was rousted from his hiding place and tried to escape before he was apprehended.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
After just over two hours of deliberations, the jury of seven women and five men found Routh guilty on all five counts, which included three federal gun charges and an assault on the Secret Service agent who rousted him from his hiding place.
—Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
In October 1941 a 14-year-old Jewish boy named Yitzhak Rudashevski sat in a crowded hiding place in Vilna Poland, hastily writing in his diary.
—Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
The panicked gang leader later took to social media to appeal to cops from a new hiding place.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The prominent mention of Frank, who died of disease in a Nazi concentration camp after her family’s hiding place was betrayed, adds to a growing discourse about whether ICE’s operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota can be compared to the Nazis’ tactics in rooting out Jews during the Holocaust.
—Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
But against Leeds, there was no hiding place.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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