oasis
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They have built their futures around creating an oasis of stability and multi-billion-dollar business in the Gulf.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
And while the home does have neighboring properties on either side, high hedges and lush trees help to make it feel complete private, creating a kind of oasis that feels truly remote and secluded.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The memorial thereby manages to combine formality—in tribute to Hunt’s classicism—with serenity, in acknowledgment of its bucolic setting in an urban oasis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Sighing, he turned east toward the oasis in the mountains.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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The fighting has hurt their oil sales and is threatening hard-won reputations as oases of calm that are safe for foreign investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
She spotlighted people turning their yards into native plant oases and beautifying public spaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
Crawling to different sections of the attic nook, searching for imaginary oases of cool, became her principal activity after her vigil over the park.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Vocabulary lists containing oasis
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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