as in vacant
not being used, filled up, or lived in
an unoccupied house About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started. A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
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Recent Examples of unoccupied
Empty middle seat etiquette is a common thread on Reddit, with travelers speculating about what is fair when the space between you and another traveler is unoccupied.
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Pamela Vachon, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
For her Vancouver shows in December, Swift is offering $16 tickets for the seats behind the stage that would otherwise have gone unoccupied.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2024
All the homes were unoccupied at the time the break-ins occurred.
—Chantz Martin, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024
Look in the mountainous West, or the South: Ogden, Utah, led the way, with 12.2 percent of all bedrooms unoccupied, followed by Colorado Springs (12.1 percent).
—Matt Yan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Pamela Vachon, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
For her Vancouver shows in December, Swift is offering $16 tickets for the seats behind the stage that would otherwise have gone unoccupied.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2024
All the homes were unoccupied at the time the break-ins occurred.
—Chantz Martin, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024
Look in the mountainous West, or the South: Ogden, Utah, led the way, with 12.2 percent of all bedrooms unoccupied, followed by Colorado Springs (12.1 percent).
—Matt Yan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unoccupied
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The Code Blue took effect Sunday night — before a body was pulled from a burning and vacant home on North Avenue.—
Lorraine Mirabella,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Jan. 2025
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Demolition so far is confined to smaller buildings at the northeast corner of the property, but will swing to the west to take in the residential buildings of the vacant Howe Developmental Center, part of the 280-acre property northwest of 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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What To Know The ASTRA Telegram channel, a project run by independent Russian journalists, said Ukraine targeted the plant in a massive drone attack, and struck an empty tank on its territory.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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With 200,000 people initially under mandatory evacuations, homes were empty, allowing criminals the opportunity to steal valuables.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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The other nine—Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Navassa Island—are uninhabited outlying islands.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoccupied. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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