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shelters

  • plural of shelter.
  • present tense form of shelter (3rd person singular).

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Shelters were already open in La Guaira and other states, he added.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Grace is now 34 and runs a charity, the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium, which provides safe housing to gay men and lesbians across Uganda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Shelters have been opened for those displaced from their homes, and helicopters were flying to and fro to bring essentials to people cut off from the rest of the world.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Shelters and rescues save them, but happy endings require more.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

But the green oak, whose spreading bough hangs o'er thee, Shelters the brother's head, Who went unto his rest a little while before thee.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various