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Recent Examples of asylum If granted, the boy could be returned to Massachusetts, where the family’s asylum case is still pending. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 For the Venezuelan man, pursuing asylum would mean continued detention. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025 The manor’s theme, which has included both a bayou and an asylum, typically changes annually. Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025 Locally, agents have detained people during otherwise-routine check-ins at ICE’s Bay Area offices, or during asylum hearings at immigration courthouses in Concord and San Francisco. Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for asylum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for asylum
Noun
  • The island has long been a refuge for those who live their lives under constant gaze—The Obamas, the Royal Family, George and Amal Clooney have all escaped here for quiet restoration.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While deputies searched the shelter, a man fell through the ceiling and was immediately detained, Enriquez said.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Samaritan’s Purse has pledged 42 ambulances, 28 of them armored, to Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, and is supporting 11 major construction projects, including ambulance response stations and community centers equipped with bomb shelters.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Water from a creek that ran alongside the church's two-story building overflowed and poured into the first-floor sanctuary.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Just 10 minutes south of Sunnylands, Sensei Porcupine Creek makes for an extraordinary retreat with its full-service wellness programming and immaculate gardens.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Pressure for companies Target’s retreat mirrors a larger pattern across corporate America.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Asylum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asylum. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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