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Recent Examples of residential
The city aims to attract businesses downtown, invest in entrepreneurs and support office-to-residential conversions.
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Jon Murray, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
Contractors are set to meet their deadlines of clearing Priority 2 and Priority 3 streets, which are in residential areas.
—Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, despite extending a program to encourage more high-rises to be built in 2024, residential density in downtown remains stagnant, so city officials want to explore offering incentives to convert commercial space into homes.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
One thing confusing some residents is snow emergency declarations and the residential street parking restrictions.
—Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
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Jon Murray, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
Contractors are set to meet their deadlines of clearing Priority 2 and Priority 3 streets, which are in residential areas.
—Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, despite extending a program to encourage more high-rises to be built in 2024, residential density in downtown remains stagnant, so city officials want to explore offering incentives to convert commercial space into homes.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
One thing confusing some residents is snow emergency declarations and the residential street parking restrictions.
—Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for residential
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But this is a volume that builds and surprises on many fronts, the cacophony of love and discontent reifying into filigreed depictions of the familial ties that bind.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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In this slow-burn story of estrangement and reconciliation, the negotiation is a familial one, the fault lines emotional rather than linguistic.—
Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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After all, the thinking goes, more exports mean more sales for domestic exporters.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Wednesday that China has approved domestic tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to buy Nvidia's H200 system, a critical development in the long-running saga of Nvidia's position in China, a huge market for the company.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Residential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residential. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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