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Recent Examples of harborage Look for hidden sources of moisture that provide harborage for them and correct the problem, says Benson. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025 Regularly clean debris in gutters that provide moisture and harborage. Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023 In addition to food, roaches need harborage to thrive. Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harborage
Noun
  • Around 60 percent of imports at Chattogram Port are handled at its outer anchorage.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
  • On April Fools’ Day in 1928, the Point Loma was towed out to an anchorage on the southern end of the Point Loma kelp beds.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The island has long been a refuge for those who live their lives under constant gaze—The Obamas, the Royal Family, George and Amal Clooney have all escaped here for quiet restoration.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Statue of Liberty stands in our harbor, not as a decoration, but as a declaration of our values and the promise of America.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement If Earth is ultimately doomed—if the sun will begin to incinerate us in about a billion years—Mars wouldn’t do as a safe harbor, since that planet would be put to the torch as well.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While deputies searched the shelter, a man fell through the ceiling and was immediately detained, Enriquez said.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Samaritan’s Purse has pledged 42 ambulances, 28 of them armored, to Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, and is supporting 11 major construction projects, including ambulance response stations and community centers equipped with bomb shelters.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For Toronto, the path to a championship will likely require feasting on the soft underbelly of the Los Angeles bullpen, the thermal exhaust port of the Dodger Death Star.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Mariners traversing the bar are urged to exercise extreme caution or stay in port until the threat subsides.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Water from a creek that ran alongside the church's two-story building overflowed and poured into the first-floor sanctuary.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Just 10 minutes south of Sunnylands, Sensei Porcupine Creek makes for an extraordinary retreat with its full-service wellness programming and immaculate gardens.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Pressure for companies Target’s retreat mirrors a larger pattern across corporate America.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Harborage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harborage. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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