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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 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 Both were institutionalized and died in asylums, her under mysterious circumstances, him at the age of 26. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025 Over the past decade a range of politicians and public figures have called to rebuild asylums in order to address the country’s mental health crisis. —

Jay Neugeboren, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2025

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The ordinance grants the city manager unilateral authority to approve contracts worth up to $5 million when they are related to creating a temporary shelters for the homeless.

— Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
While the data showed just more than 120,000 people were listed as being housed in shelters set up across the country, Baban said many were sleeping in tents on the streets of Beirut or in parked cars.

— Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026