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something that provides protection or relief from weather or outside dangers
Her study was an oasis of quiet in her otherwise chaotic home.
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Recent Examples of oases
Texas lost more centers than any other state, making Texas Tech and Childress Medical Center oases in a spreading health care desert.
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Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
The old caravan routes traced the shortest distance between oases, and the Memory Road does the same today, albeit on asphalt.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
When any of the more than 4,000 palm trees on property get older, and age out of their prime from a landscaping point of view, they can be relocated to one of three desert oases on the property.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
In the years following, a handful of new parks — most notably, Klyde Warren — created attractive oases within and adjacent to the downtown core.
—Mark Lamster
architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
As secluded, hidden oases throughout the city, the secret spots are surrounded by walls that create large flowerpots, and which are filled with soil that won’t kill the plants, unlike the salt-rich Venetian dirt.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
Kathy Wang’s The Satisfaction Cafe, and Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe With No Name, translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire, each center scrappy protagonists who wind up making oases despite unlucky lots.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Fossil examination using CT scans The Wadisuchus kassabi fossils were found near the Kharga and Baris oases in Egypt’s Western Desert.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
The old caravan routes traced the shortest distance between oases, and the Memory Road does the same today, albeit on asphalt.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
When any of the more than 4,000 palm trees on property get older, and age out of their prime from a landscaping point of view, they can be relocated to one of three desert oases on the property.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
In the years following, a handful of new parks — most notably, Klyde Warren — created attractive oases within and adjacent to the downtown core.
—Mark Lamster
architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
As secluded, hidden oases throughout the city, the secret spots are surrounded by walls that create large flowerpots, and which are filled with soil that won’t kill the plants, unlike the salt-rich Venetian dirt.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
Kathy Wang’s The Satisfaction Cafe, and Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe With No Name, translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire, each center scrappy protagonists who wind up making oases despite unlucky lots.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Fossil examination using CT scans The Wadisuchus kassabi fossils were found near the Kharga and Baris oases in Egypt’s Western Desert.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oases
Noun
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Cattle, deer and other large herbivores disturb the abodes of bacteria.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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Frette is another name in Italian linens to know that’s been decorating iconic Mediterranean interiors since 1860, including the abodes of actual royalty.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Why perpetuate this problem in city parks — our best refuges from the danger, noise and congestion of city streets?—
Jon Orcutt,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Aire Ancient Baths A subterranean theater of candlelit pools and vaulted brick, Aire remains one of the city’s few strictly phone-and-camera-free refuges.—
Amy Louise Bailey,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Mar. 2026
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The decision to inaugurate the first urban Six Senses property in Rome was partially driven by the owner’s love of all things Italian and is part of a new drive to bring sanctuaries to bigger cities.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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That brightening would affect the entire planet, including remote locations that are now considered dark sky sanctuaries, where astronomers build their sky-observing machines.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
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When fear eases, the rush into safe havens tends to ease with it.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Vested with the responsibility of finding havens for some of the county’s most fragile, lonely people, often without relatives or those able to care for them, Hernandez has been accused of treating them like commodities.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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For example, sociologist Erving Goffman showed that the way care is structured in asylums shaped how patients are treated.—
Jennifer Singh,
The Conversation,
8 Jan. 2026
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Such a light as this should shine only on murders and public crime, or along the corridors of lunatic asylums.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Brilliant blue waves meet a sensational crescent of white sand at Salt Whistle Bay, one of the most stunning anchorages in the southeastern Caribbean.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
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Sailing aboard a small ship with just 36 passengers, the voyage moves between islands and along remote coastlines, accessing sea caves, marine sanctuaries, and quiet anchorages that large cruise ships simply cannot reach.—
Paris Wilson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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SaveABunny partners with other shelters and is often the last resort.—
Sharon Chin,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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In their filing in Sacramento Superior Court, the residents accuse city officials of violating Measure O, which mandates that interim shelters sit more than 500 feet away from bodies of water or streams.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Itineraries include Alaska, the Mediterranean, Croatia’s secluded harbors and Asia-Pacific.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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The state port authority has argued the project is existentially necessary to keep the Wilmington port competitive in an era of larger ships, heavier loads and deeper harbors.—
Patrick Sisson,
Scientific American,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Oases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oases. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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