as in venue
the area or space occupied by or intended for something we chose the historic church on Main Street as the location for the ceremony

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Recent Examples of location The couple closed Uptown Yolk’s uptown location in 2021 before reopening it in South End two years later. Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025 While Universal will provide creative assets such as trailers, standees and other digital and physical materials, theaters big and small will look for ways to lure audiences to their locations with special collectible popcorn buckets and unique food and drink options. Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025 Monster Energy is running promos and theater locations for the doc on jumbotrons at each race. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025 The photos, posted on X, did not specify the identities of those boarding or the location where the images were taken. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for location 
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Noun
  • That venue has not been turned into n evacuation center as many other similar facilities have, so far.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Guitarist Sophie Lloyd, who plays with Machine Gun Kelly, rehearses onstage for an upcoming performance as people rotate in and out of the venue with their donations.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Michigan and Louisville are also candidates to go from last place to the tourney.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • As of Saturday afternoon, the coin was valued at $5.5 billion, according to cryptocurrency site CoinMarketCap.com.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The pair later spent nearly half an hour in Section 60, the burial site for military personnel killed while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, talking with families of soldiers who died in the 2021 Kabul airport bombing.
    WILL WEISSERT, arkansasonline.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Planes doused homes and hillsides with bright pink fire-retardant chemicals while crews and fire engines were being placed near particularly vulnerable spots.
    CHRISTOPHER WEBER, arkansasonline.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • That same year, Starbucks closed more than a dozen locations, primarily located in downtown spots, citing safety concerns.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • Reality check: The federal powers will run into thorny legal issues, as states and localities generally have oversight over power plant planning and permitting.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Voting reforms are not a silver bullet solution; instituting them does not in and of itself boost turnout or increase civic participation, as the many other states and localities that have implemented versions of these policies can attest.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025

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“Location.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/location. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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