asylum
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Forced out for the last time, Batista flew to Jacksonville and unsuccessfully requested asylum in the U.S.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
As it came close to expiring, she says an immigration interpreter helped her apply for asylum on the grounds she was facing threats from lenders in Sri Lanka.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Within its looping narrative, the narrator observes the Reader and we in turn observe each of them while shadowy figures from the asylum materialize only to vanish again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Mexico received 70,500 asylum applications last year, the United Nations says.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Antonapoulos was to leave and to be admitted into the asylum the next week.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
We no longer write of ideæ, chori, asyla, musea, sphinges, specimina for ideas, choruses, asylums, museums, sphinxes, specimens, and the notion of returning to such plurals would seem barbarous and absurd.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English
Greece had its famous asyla, but the custom of our own country was probably influenced from Hebrew rather than classical sources.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Orson and Lorenzo, consummate showmen, were summoned to prisons, where they inspected the heads of inmates and guessed their crimes; at lunatic asylums they were challenged to identify the patients’ disorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The homes were first developed in California more than 50 years ago as the state closed its asylums and moved mental health patients into communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
I couldn’t stop reading about the horrors—especially the stories about orphan asylums filled with unloved and underfed waifs.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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