residential

as in familial

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Recent Examples of residential The 80-story tower in Dubai, the Gulf's tourism hub boasting the world's tallest building and palm-shaped islands, will host a luxury hotel, premium residential apartments, and two penthouse residences. Federico MacCioni, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025 The Magen David Adom emergency service said hundreds of civilians were at risk as flames tore through dry brush near residential zones. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025 The Woolworth Building in Tribeca, designed by skyscraper-pioneering architect Cass Gilbert, stands alongside Emery Roth’s Beresford and Ely Jacques Kahn’s Sherry-Netherland as one of New York’s most distinguished residential landmarks. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2025 Eversource said Wednesday an average residential customer could save about $13 a month on bills beginning May 1 and extending for a year as a result of the $142 credit. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for residential
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Adjective
  • The race has been defined by Trump’s attacks on Canada, upending the decades-long familial relationship between the two countries amid an unprecedented surge of Canadian nationalism.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As Laura becomes part of the household — alongside the woman’s husband and adult son — the four begin to form a fragile familial bond.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Us’s first $71 million domestic weekend beats Sinners’s opening weekend, but that movie fell to $33 million by its second weekend.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Nor was domestic slavery of an altogether different order.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sources of 2023 household debt in the US include: Credit Cards: $1.13 trillion Mortgage: $12.25 trillion Auto Loans: 1.61 trillion Student Loans: $1.6 trillion Outstanding balances also include debt from retail credit cards, consumer loans and other non-household expenses.
    Kara Nelson, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Hancock said in the statement that his family canceled their traditional multi-household Thanksgiving celebration.
    NBC News, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020

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“Residential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residential. Accessed 11 May. 2025.

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