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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

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

Washington officials and advocates have been locked in a legal struggle for nearly a decade over how to ensure people with mental illnesses aren’t being warehoused in jails while their court cases stall.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

All the rest, practically two-thirds of the entire harvest of Los Muertos, now found itself warehoused in his enormous elevator at Port Costa.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank