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asylums

noun

plural of asylum

as in shelters

something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger the embassy serves as an asylum for that country's nationals in need of help

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Recent Examples of asylums Conditions varied, but some asylums gained reputations as brutal, overcrowded warehouses where patients were neglected and restrained. —

ABC News, 24 May 2026 In the first half of the twentieth century, a new spirit of unchecked experimentation swept through the wards of the major asylums of America and Europe as doctors devised increasingly bizarre and sometimes cruel interventions with almost no legal oversight. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 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 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 Many former asylums are now macabre tourist attractions, whose treatment of their subject matter can range from the sensitive to the sensationalist. —

Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025 But worst of all is the knowledge that all of these terrors were trademarks of the asylums that stowed away those with mental health conditions well into the 20th century. —

James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025

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Crosby, a deputy city attorney endorsed by the county Democratic Party, had sent mailers contending Bailey’s promises to reduce city spending would slash funding for parks, libraries and homeless shelters.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
At least 65 people were wounded across the city, Ukrainian officials said, in strikes that caused power outages and sent residents scrambling to shelters as air raid sirens sounded.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 June 2026