Thesaurus results for OASES

oases

noun

plural of oasis

as in abodes

something that provides protection or relief from weather or outside dangers Her study was an oasis of quiet in her otherwise chaotic home.

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Recent Examples of oases Cholla gardens and brittlebush rise from pale alluvial slopes, and a seasonal stream leads to one of California’s few native fan palm oases. —

Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Texas lost more centers than any other state, making Texas Tech and Childress Medical Center oases in a spreading health care desert. —

Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026 The old caravan routes traced the shortest distance between oases, and the Memory Road does the same today, albeit on asphalt. —

Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 When any of the more than 4,000 palm trees on property get older, and age out of their prime from a landscaping point of view, they can be relocated to one of three desert oases on the property. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026 In the years following, a handful of new parks — most notably, Klyde Warren — created attractive oases within and adjacent to the downtown core. —

Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026 The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern. —

Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025 As secluded, hidden oases throughout the city, the secret spots are surrounded by walls that create large flowerpots, and which are filled with soil that won’t kill the plants, unlike the salt-rich Venetian dirt. —

Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025 Kathy Wang’s The Satisfaction Cafe, and Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe With No Name, translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire, each center scrappy protagonists who wind up making oases despite unlucky lots. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025

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Indeed, the only black-and-white to be found here is on David Zinn’s thought-provoking set, which washes the abodes of the younger characters in funereal black right down to Suzanna’s hotel bed.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
Stroll or bike the roughly 22-mile Geneva Lake Shore Path, offering up-close views of the Gilded Age estates and modern abodes that hug the water.

— Katy Spratte Joyce, Midwest Living, 31 Mar. 2026