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Recent Examples of harborage The combination of food debris and moisture in these containers can provide safe harborage, says Benson. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024 Regularly clean debris in gutters that provide moisture and harborage. Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023 First instars showed no significant preference for any colored harborage soon after hatching. Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016 In addition to food, roaches need harborage to thrive. Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harborage
Noun
  • As of Thursday morning, six vessels were at the outer anchorage, with 11 loading and unloading boxes at the port jetties.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The merchant ship was also damaged, but no injuries were reported on either vessel, the Navy said following the collision near a crowded anchorage for ships transiting the canal.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • New bill to strengthen protections for transgender care Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who authored a 2022 law to make California a safe refuge for transgender youth, introduced a new bill in February to strengthen those protections.
    CalMatters, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The Wheeler Preserve is also a refuge for more than 10 federally endangered or threatened species, including the rare Whooping Crane, which has been returning each winter since 2004.
    Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The ship towers over the dock and surrounding shops. Not far away, there's a device in the harbor that has been keeping track of the area's water quality for more than a year.
    Greg Allen, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Near the center of town, in the old harbor area, a deserted promenade ran between frosty vistas and imposing museums and cultural buildings.
    Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The entire community was designated a shelter by Governor Ron DeSantis. Babcock Ranch sheltered around 2,000 Floridians in the town’s school and the sports facility.
    Celia Fernandez,Raffi Paul, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The lone shelter in Del Rio, the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition, can’t even house migrants overnight.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Following launch, the space station’s Canadarm2 will grapple Cygnus no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 1, and the spacecraft will attach to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading by the Expedition 70 crew.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The United Arab Emirates, another Abraham Accord country that has developed strong ties with Israel, once had a military base in Somaliland and maintains commercial interests there, including a port.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Monarch butterflies stream through trees in El Rosario sanctuary within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoácán, Mexico.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • This master bath sanctuary, which gained prominence during the pandemic lockdown, is riding a wave of popularity.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Today is the last day of the retreat, and Buc-ee has already blessed them with inspiration: The women have written six songs.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
  • On the market for €5.1 million (or $5.5 million) with Savills, the villa’s roughly 10,000-square-foot garden is a true retreat, dotted with ancient trees including pines, cypresses, and holm oaks.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Harborage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harborage. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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