oasis
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It’s China’s duty-free retail mecca and a tropical oasis, to boot.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
KAILUA, Hawaii—The seaside streets bear the unmistakable look of a Hawaiian beach town, an oasis of palm trees, swimsuits and surfboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s about 10 miles off our route but is an air-conditioned oasis of burgers, pie a la mode and endless ice water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Across the street is an 8.5-acre historic South L.A. oasis — Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
From that day on, the oasis would be an empty place for her.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
But the war is hitting their core business proposition—being oases of stability within a volatile region—and delivering a blow to efforts to diversify their economies beyond energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
And that when you visited palm oases way down south between San Diego and the Salton Sea, you were in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
The lines of vegetation along their banks are like oases, fertile places where people can farm in an otherwise almost lifeless land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing oasis
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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