as in abode
the place where one lives
police stopped by his residence to question him
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Recent Examples of residence
Letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2025
According to court records, Crouch has been placed on house arrest with GPS monitoring and is prohibited from going within 500 yards of the victim’s residence.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
In April 2024, a neighbor’s security camera captured footage of an intellectually disabled man emerging from the side door of the neighboring residence and tossing a small object, later found to be a chicken bone, into the neighbor’s yard.
—Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2025
Many have viewed this swelling financial support, and the recent visits made by multiple tech executives to Trump's residence in Florida, as an attempt to curry favor with the incoming president.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2025
According to court records, Crouch has been placed on house arrest with GPS monitoring and is prohibited from going within 500 yards of the victim’s residence.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
In April 2024, a neighbor’s security camera captured footage of an intellectually disabled man emerging from the side door of the neighboring residence and tossing a small object, later found to be a chicken bone, into the neighbor’s yard.
—Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2025
Many have viewed this swelling financial support, and the recent visits made by multiple tech executives to Trump's residence in Florida, as an attempt to curry favor with the incoming president.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for residence
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Located about 15 minutes outside of the historic Western film-worthy downtown core and perched high in the Mountain Village neighborhood, the one-of-a-kind abode was designed by Tom Conyers Architects and built in 2015 by Gerber Construction, with interior design by Thomas Hamel and Associates.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
17 Jan. 2025
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Per investigators, he is suspected of using fire escape stairs in the rear of Khan's residential building to enter the actor's abode.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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One area where Bodek says the county hasn’t been able to have much effect: the locations of accessory dwelling units, or ADUs.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Over 7,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed in the blaze and 26% of damage inspections for dwellings have been completed.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Inside, the house is now completely empty of furniture.—
Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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His only things were, there’s a house with a presence in it.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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While many people initially were concerned about Grammy attendees taking hotel rooms from locals who’d lost their homes, as of last week, local hotels were at just 30% occupancy, according to the city’s head of tourism for the Marketing District and the CEO of the Convention and Visitors Bureau.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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The new potential hazard puts the very homes that survived the fires at risk again.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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For example, nearly 1 million U.S. homes in wildfire-prone areas have highly combustible wooden roofs.—
Justin Angle,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Accord struck a light pole and two trees and rolled onto its roof, leading to Santiago being ejected from the vehicle.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kids under two get free access to the water park and lodging.—
Jean Chen Smith,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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In a confidential advisory opinion dated May 15, 2019, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board had told the then-mayor that taxpayers could cover salaries and overtime of officers, but not food, lodging and other costs.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Not having residency here has created enormous barriers in our attempt to rebuild and move forward.—
Amal Murtaja,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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The change is also anticipated to add new bureaucratic hurdles for all Americans having children, who will have to prove their U.S. residency or citizenship and register their children as citizens, rather than have that conferred automatically.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Michigan and Louisville are also candidates to go from last place to the tourney.—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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Career officials discovered that their default mode of thinking about Britain’s place in the world was suspect, too.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Residence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residence. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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