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
Now there is an opportunity for new owners to invest fresh money into perfectly fine, but relatively unoccupied office buildings, and reimagine them.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The home was unoccupied and under construction at the time of the incident, the department said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The vehicle, which was unoccupied at the time, was seized by Cohoes Police as evidence.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Councilmember John Dumitru asked staff to develop an inventory of all unoccupied, underdeveloped or undeveloped properties and suggested making the full Grant Thornton report publicly available.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The home was unoccupied and under construction at the time of the incident, the department said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The vehicle, which was unoccupied at the time, was seized by Cohoes Police as evidence.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Councilmember John Dumitru asked staff to develop an inventory of all unoccupied, underdeveloped or undeveloped properties and suggested making the full Grant Thornton report publicly available.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unoccupied
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DeSantis appointed his former Chief of Staff James Uthmeier to the vacant attorney general post in February, giving him an incumbent-like advantage for the 2026 election even though voters did not pick him for the job.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Even Roosevelt, the city’s most cherished school, has been vacant since 2019 and fallen into disrepair.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Erik Thommy could not get to the rebound in time to take advantage of an empty net, and his shot was blocked by a defender out for a corner kick.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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What To Know On the night of August 22, Zarutska boarded a Lynx Blue Line train and sat in an empty two-person seat.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Billy Zane stars as Marlon Brando—a role he was born to play, look at him—in Bill Fishman’s adaptation of a memoir by architect Bernard Judge, whom Brando hired to build a compound on an uninhabited island in Tahiti in the ’70s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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In warmer months, rent a boat or jet ski and head to Goat Island to congregate with other boaters who love to swim and relax around the tiny, uninhabited island.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoccupied. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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