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Examples of resident in a Sentence
Several tribes are resident in this part of the country.
Recent Examples of resident from the Web
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The bacteria has been found in Egyptian mummies from about 3400 B.C., according to an April 2017 bulletin from Dr. Bruce Chandler, the resident tuberculosis expert for the city of Anchorage.
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All the while, a group of Liberian expats — including both Taylor and Woewiyu, then a legal permanent resident living outside Newark, N.J. — were launching a plan to remove him.
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Instead, Hawley cast her as Lenny, the show's resident agent of chaos, a role originally meant for a middle-age man.
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In addition to winning Best of Las Vegas Awards honors like best resident performer/headliner, best production show, best bachelorette party and best bachelor party, Spears’ Las Vegas show helped usher in a new era for residency acts on the strip.
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Museum launches resident artist program The DuPage Children’s Museum has a new program in which young children can work alongside a professional artist this summer.
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But the southern resident whales, whose numbers hover below 100, are considered endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The Census doesn't have as much long-term data on the percent of adult citizens speaking something other than English, but since 2009 it's been rising in tandem with the share of all resident non-English speakers.
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Approved by the village in 2013 and opened in 2015, several large-scale public meetings were held to get resident input on that project.
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Origin and Etymology of resident
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin resident-, residens, present participle of residēre
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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The Dallas-Fort Worth Wildlife Coalition published guidelines alerting residents to how to identify and coexist with bobcats and why shooting or relocating the animal isn’t a feasible solution.
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According to investigators, the shooting was the result of an ongoing conflict involving another resident at the complex.
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When nursing homes are short-staffed, nurses and aides scramble to deliver meals, ferry bedbound residents to the bathroom and answer calls for pain medication.
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The letter encouraged residents to attend the July HOA meeting, and about 30 did.
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At Microsoft, more than 300 workers complained about contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that had been separating families on the US-Mexico border and rounding up longtime residents for deportation.
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Emergency Twitter Alerts Broward County encourages residents to stay connected with county officials before, during and after an emergency.
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Trump’s vision of oil pumps riles many residents in Paonia.
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Susan Trask appeared with her two daughters at at a recent Crown Point City Council meeting and presented a petition with 280 signatures asking that residents be allowed to own up to four hens on lots less than five acres.
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First Known Use of resident
15th century
RESIDENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of resident for English Language Learners
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: living in a particular place usually for a long period of time
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: working regularly at a particular place
resident
Definition of resident for English Language Learners
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: someone who lives in a particular place
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: a doctor who is training at a hospital to become a specialist in a particular field of medicine
RESIDENT Defined for Kids
Definition of resident for Students
: a person who lives in a place
Definition of resident for Students
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: living in a place for some length of time
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: serving in a full-time position
- a resident doctor
Medical Dictionary
Law Dictionary
resident
legal Definition of resident
: one who has a residence in a particular place but does not necessarily have the status of a citizen — compare citizen 1, domiciliary
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