as in inhabitant
one who lives permanently in a place
a resident of Atlanta
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Recent Examples of resident
Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen’s life.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Their resident rooster Heihei (Alan Tudyk), a Moana pal from the first film, begins to respond in kind, doing odd head gyrations and feather fanning.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Monterey County residents are suing energy companies after a massive toxic battery fire at Moss Landing.
—Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen’s life.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
People who migrated to Britain before 1973 and were legally resident in the country lost their jobs and housing, were denied health care and their pensions, and were stopped at the border after going on vacation and refused entry into the U.K., because of gaps in their paperwork.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Their resident rooster Heihei (Alan Tudyk), a Moana pal from the first film, begins to respond in kind, doing odd head gyrations and feather fanning.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resident
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In addition to wrecking the forge, Confederate soldiers carried off its Black inhabitants for enslavement in Virginia and beyond.—
Robert Colby,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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Two days ago, the president of the United States declared his intention to assume long-term ownership of the Gaza Strip, turn the coastal enclave into a real-estate-development heaven, and permanently remove its Palestinian inhabitants to other countries.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Though native to East Africa and nonmigratory, the snail has made its way around the world, including to other parts of Africa, Hawaii, the Pacific islands, the Caribbean, Brazil and much of subtropical Asia.—
Kelsey Ables,
Washington Post,
21 June 2023
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So, there's a chance that the commercial populations were simply originally source from a nonmigratory population.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
25 June 2019
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Since both occupants were out of the car at the time of the crash, investigators haven’t figured out who was driving, police said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Yet, people have a new, more favorable attitude toward his presidency in retrospect, certainly compared to the current occupant of the White House.—
Rich Lowry,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This backward motion began to manifest itself after Mars arrived at its first stationary point on Dec. 7.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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That moisture will combine with a stationary arctic front late Sunday and early Monday to bring snow from the northern Rockies and into the northern Plains.—
Joel Shannon,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Angela works at a strip club where women’s clothes come off not through dances but via jump cuts; their faces are expressionless and their bodies immobile, as if they’ve been reduced to deadpan pin-up poses.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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That is, if the rider is immobile for more than 15 seconds.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Resident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resident. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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