asylum
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France has long been a staging post for asylum seekers without visas hoping to cross the sea to Britain.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He checked into an asylum, never to recover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A 28-year-old from Venezuela, Garces Perez says he entered the U.S. legally using a process the Biden administration created, applied for asylum, and got a work permit.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Despite his ongoing asylum case, he now faces deportation to the country he fled and whose abuses he has spent years documenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You’re seeking asylum, I see?” the officer asked.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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
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
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
In the 1960s, public opinion turned against involuntary commitments and the abuses of “snakepit” asylums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
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
Try as I might to believe that she was done thinking about the Home for the Friendless, there were any number of new asylums being built each month in Chicago.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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