as in sheltering
to be or provide a shelter for
a nation with a long, honorable history of refuging political asylum seekers
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Mutual aid helps provide a lifeline Mutual aid groups of volunteers have mobilized to help neighbors sheltering at home with life’s essentials.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026 -
Pizer said at one point during their escape, he was separated from his husband and one of their friends, who both ended up sheltering in a church orphanage for more than eight hours.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 2026
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For Boos, his efforts with the association over the last quarter century have been aimed at protecting the Wolf Lake watershed, and helping bring people together over the state line to further that goal.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
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But two German rifle cartridges with iron bullets suggest that Jews hid from the Nazis in this difficult to navigate terrain, further, if not poetically, attesting to the protective ambiance of the forests of Włodawa, Poland, preserving, if not protecting history and also human life.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Refuging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refuging. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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