oases
- plural of oasis.
Example Sentences
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These crater lakes may have functioned as localized "oxygen oases" before oxygen became widespread across the planet.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
But the war is hitting their core business proposition—being oases of stability within a volatile region—and delivering a blow to efforts to diversify their economies beyond energy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
While there are some fully off-grid dwellers, ranging from high-end desert oases and North Coast communes to the famous counterculture settlement of Imperial County’s “Slab City,” an off-grid suburb is one of a kind.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024
“The oases may not shelter armies or troops.”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
