How to Use occupation in a Sentence

occupation

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  • The offices are ready for occupation.
  • Some evidence of human occupation was found in these caves.
  • Swimming was their main occupation at summer camp.
  • He is thinking about changing occupations and becoming a police officer.
  • The main one is Hezbollah in Lebanon, formed in the 1980s to fight the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon.
    — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Lawyers are only one occupation in the path of A.I. progress.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But all of these options fall very short of ending the occupation.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • By the fourth century, Roman occupation in Egypt meant that Opet was no longer a thing.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The young and old are piled in together -- pets fill the floor -- all with stories of life under Russian occupation.
    — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The unemployment rate for tech occupations rose to 2.3% in June.
    — Angus Loten, WSJ, 7 July 2023
  • Despite the significance of the Battle of Puebla, the win there did not end the French occupation of Mexico.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The church has been part of village life since the beginning of Russian occupation, one of the few places, people said, where Unangam Tunuu was welcome.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • The details of the landscape and flora transported me back to the days before the occupation by Europeans.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Phone networks went down in many of the areas that came under Russian occupation last year.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2023
  • During the Russian occupation of Bakhmut in 2023, the Wagner Group set up its headquarters in the tunnels of the winery.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • At City College, students engaged in a two-week occupation of the campus.
    — TIME, 9 May 2024
  • Israel maintains its occupation zone in southern Lebanon after pulling back from a line further north, controlling the area with the help of the South Lebanon Army.
    — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an occupation.
    — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
  • For the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who survived nine months of occupation, evacuating the city is one of the war’s great cruelties.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2022
  • While the residents of Luch managed to outlast the occupation in the region, their village was ravaged.
    — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The truth is that journalists came together because, in the early days of the war, when people feared a total occupation of the country, no one knew what to do.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
  • These occupations will be changed by generative A.I., and all are likely to see job growth between now and 2030.
    — Michael Chui, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The flare-up around the museum display reflects a larger, longstanding debate over the Dutch response to the occupation by the Nazis, who stayed five years.
    — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Israel’s occupation of this part of the enclave seems firm, its forces everywhere.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The book’s subject, the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, and its literary qualities make Babi Yar every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Far too many of the Israelis protesting Netanyahu right now have been passive at best in the face of the occupation and have only turned out to protest when their own rights have come under direct threat.
    — David Klion, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ukraine’s swift occupation of large swaths of Russia’s Kursk region last month surprised the world and gave the battered nation cause for pride after months of bad news from the battlefield.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Hall imparts with grace and nuance that the humanity on offer from those in low vs. high skill occupations is often as stark as night and day.
    — Longreads, 28 July 2023
  • Voter who is employed in an occupation that is scheduled to work during all days and all hours, which shall include commute time, the polls are open on election day and during the days of no-excuse in-person absentee voting.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Today, the threat of occupation still looms just across the river, where Russian military positions are literally within sight.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024

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