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After spending the summer in the Hamptons, Icahn is wintering at his house on the Miami-area island known as Billionaire Bunker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Clover is wintering at Mazzarisi’s cabin in St. Mary.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
By Sunday, the ground was bare on the property where the author’s family is wintering in Maine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2012
In Florida, where he is wintering, Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Poetry Prizewinner, had good news from Manhattan: the Academy of American Poets had awarded him their annual $5,000 fellowship for 1953.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Besides, isn’t there the chance of falling in with some ship that is wintering here?” asked Johnson.
From The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
