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Recent Examples of asylum In the policy proposal, Flores said a better legal pathways plan would allow the United States to better select migrants who qualify for asylum or who may fill a specific need in the economy, similar to Escobar’s bill. Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025 The court awarded €20,000 ($21,000) in damages to a Turkish woman, identified only as A.R.E., who was expelled from Greece in 2019 without the chance to apply for asylum. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 Thai authorities have returned asylum seekers and others trying to seek refuge here to Vietnam, Laos, China and other countries with repressive governments. Hannah Beech, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 Possibly one of Netflix’s best but more under-the-radar series returns at the end of January, with Mo (creator and star Mo Amer) continuing his journey to seek asylum in the United States. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for asylum 
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Noun
  • The centers have become refuges for many whose lives have been upended by the unprecedented fires that continue to ravage the Los Angeles area.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Fell says the project is especially interested in Woodstock’s place in the Catskill Mountains, a former summer refuge for New York’s Jewish vacationers and a cradle of Borscht Belt comedy.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Many people went further out of the city, finding shelter in friends’ homes in beach cities away from the smoke or leaving for the desert or another part of the state altogether.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The budget plan maintains $100 million to clear homeless encampments and get people into shelter but includes no new funding for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and prevention program, a popular grant that allows local governments to flexibly spend homelessness dollars in their communities.
    Lia Russell and, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • An additional five animals at a private animal sanctuary in Colorado — two tigers, one lion, a mountain lion and a fox — also perished from eating the food.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In Washington, 20 wild cats died at an animal sanctuary from raw food.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The retreat has a small lake surrounded by greenery.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Firefighters on scene said the fire had been 50 acres at its peak, and was now down to 42.3 — in retreat.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025

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“Asylum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asylum. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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