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sanctuary

noun as in church; holiest room or area in religious building

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noun as in safe place for wildlife

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It has also been found in wild elephant herds and in some sanctuaries and elephant orphanages.

From BBC

As Santa Clara County is a sanctuary jurisdiction, Lina Baroudi, an immigration attorney in San Jose, believes local law enforcement is unlikely to cooperate with ICE.

She performs it in a gondola, floating down the catwalk as she flees the chaos of the main stage for the sanctuary of her piano.

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The lawsuit comes just days after a federal judge in a separate case barred the administration from conditioning similar federal grant funding on states rescinding their so-called “sanctuary” policies protecting immigrants.

Further north, in the forests of Ubud, resorts are marketing themselves as a sanctuary to escape the bustle of the south.

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