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 California State Fair concerts are free with fair admission and can be purchased online or at participating Save Mart locations. Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Reassignment locations Nagy's email gives the officials the options of working in a variety of places that are a mix of states, cities and reservations. Rob Stein, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025 Dan’s Bagels, which has drawn lines out the door ever since TikTok personalities came to its Denton County location, will open in a former bakery and cookie shop at 2430 Forest Park Blvd. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025 Both routes will operate once a week, and Delta will be the only U.S. carrier with nonstop service to both locations from Atlanta. Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for location
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Noun
  • The vessel will also stop at the line’s private Bahamas island, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, where passengers will find loungers overlooking aquamarine water; dining venues and bars; shore excursions like kayaking and jet skiing; and more.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The venue, which has a concert capacity of around twenty thousand people, has become an unlikely home base for the band.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Lesotho Communications Authority said the license would be in place for 10 years.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Beloved at-home mani brand Olive & June offers tab press-on options—think of them as a much stronger double-sided tape that secures your faux nail in place.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • However, wind and solar tend to take up a lot of space, which has led to challenges in local approvals for new sites and transmission lines.
    Erin Baker, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • And on the day of the launch, celebrity friends including Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner joined the historic moment at the site in Texas.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mothers agreed to share current blood samples and allow access to the pinprick blood spots that had been collected when they were born.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The custom design was later cut into a shorter version on the spot by its designer, Olivier Rousteing.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pertinent now thanks to a new Trump executive order, two sections in particular (Titles IV and V, noted below) called for getting the federal government out of crisis response best left to states and localities.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Local Responsibility—a Larger Role for States and Communities With the federal government scaling back its role in public health, responsibility for improving health outcomes will increasingly fall on states and localities.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Location.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/location. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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