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Faced with what he thought were his only choices—being warehoused, or dying—he applied for MAID.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

"You're seeing people basically get warehoused because the courts can't deal with the demand."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

Surplus items were warehoused, donated, or thrown away.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2024

She also sought to ease the transition of patients from being warehoused in state mental hospitals to living independently.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Then they unloaded them and warehoused the goods whilst the merchants' wives went up with Ali's family to the saloon, which they found as it were a luxuriant garden, spread with magnificent furniture.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir