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Another place investors have sheltered from tariff turmoil and U.S. economic worries recently is international markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

The Tamer Institute for Community Education told the BBC that Halimy was in an area near the beach where displaced people have sheltered when he was fatally struck.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2024

Some 1.5 million Palestinians have sheltered in the southern Gaza city as the territory has been ravaged by the war that began on Oct.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

Warming centers in Knoxville have sheltered over 270 people so far, Ms. Read said, adding that the city received two years’ worth of snow in one week.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

It looked from where I stood as if a flea could not have sheltered behind those masses of green.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler