as in occupancy
the act or fact of residing in a place
as much as I've enjoyed my residency in this state, it may be time to move on
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Recent Examples of residency
We got asked to do some festivals coming up soon and also a month-long residency in LA at a great venue on Fridays in November.
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Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
Feeling unsettled by Dalloway’s increasingly intrusive presence, Clarissa is warned by Mathias, a whistleblower artist who tells her about the true motives behind the residency and the tech company funding it.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Adele’s residency is set at the Colosseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace, a venue built originally for Dion’s residency.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
Her last live performances were during her 2014 residency at Hammersmith Apollo in London.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
Feeling unsettled by Dalloway’s increasingly intrusive presence, Clarissa is warned by Mathias, a whistleblower artist who tells her about the true motives behind the residency and the tech company funding it.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Adele’s residency is set at the Colosseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace, a venue built originally for Dion’s residency.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
Her last live performances were during her 2014 residency at Hammersmith Apollo in London.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for residency
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The company has leaned into the new work-from-home dynamic, which has fueled its center occupancy rates to 71%, above pre-Covid levels of 69%, Tong noted.Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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But with looming uncertainty, the landlord chose certainty of occupancy over a speculative holdout for higher rents.Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 26 Oct. 2024
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The series streamlines much of the larger historical context and can feel claustrophobic as a result — in excluding a full picture of what British occupation materially meant in the day-to-day of West Belfast, the series fails to communicate the scale of what this history means to the region.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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The legislation does not directly outlaw UNRWA’s operations in the West Bank and Gaza, both considered by international law to be outside the state of Israel but under Israeli occupation.Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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On Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council will review Anderson’s appeal of a city condemnation order declaring her residence to be unfit for habitation.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2024
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Eddy told me her member companies spent much of this year preparing for last week’s vote, identifying 15 project sites in the Central Valley and Imperial Valley with signs of owl habitation and working with biologists to craft a conservation strategy.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Residency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residency. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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