the Red Cross
noun
: an international organization that helps people who are suffering because of a war or natural disaster
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Laing started her career at Cambridge Associates in 2003, leaving in 2008 to work at the Red Cross and a pension fund.
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Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 1 May 2025
Anyone seeking financial assistance through the Red Cross can stop by and get information about the process or start it by filling out a form to begin the registration process, the release states.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2025
Many had spent the night at the station, wrapped in blankets provided by the Red Cross.
—Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Into the last decades of the twentieth century, the laws of war were almost exclusively the domain of military lawyers and humanitarians at the Red Cross.
—Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
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Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 1 May 2025
Anyone seeking financial assistance through the Red Cross can stop by and get information about the process or start it by filling out a form to begin the registration process, the release states.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2025
Many had spent the night at the station, wrapped in blankets provided by the Red Cross.
—Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Into the last decades of the twentieth century, the laws of war were almost exclusively the domain of military lawyers and humanitarians at the Red Cross.
—Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Red Cross
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“The Red Cross.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Red%20Cross. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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