oasis
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Across the street is an 8.5-acre historic South L.A. oasis — Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
But what a relaxing oasis above the crowds with several seating areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"An oasis of calm in all the chaos around him - and it has paid off again."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Now the dream has turned into a nightmare for many in the cosmopolitan oasis who have given their lives and fortunes to foster "human unity in diversity" and "the transformation of consciousness".
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The wind brought the sounds of the oasis to them, and the boy tried to hear Fatima’s voice.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Places such as Sandberg’s Summit Hotel and the Lebec Hotel were oases for food and drink and sleep when wind and ice made the road impassable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
That was also the case in North Africa, where the grasslands, forests, and lakes favored by humans disappeared, causing them to retreat to areas like the mountains, oases, and the Nile Delta.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
In a hundred miles we passed two oases, the first at Olancha, the second around Lone Pine, a small, tree-filled town where a lot of mountain buffs turn off for the Mount Whitney Portal.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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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