as in inhabitant
one who lives permanently in a place
the only occupants of that house are an old lady and her cat
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Recent Examples of occupant
Investigators said a white Chevy Astro van drove around the street corner and, without warning, occupants inside the van opened fire on Barraza’s group, investigators said.
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Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
This system measures the body temperature of a seat’s occupant and adjusts that of the seat according to the temperature set on the climate system.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Single-door teardrops were very common a decade or two ago, in the early days of the 21st century teardrop resurgence, but have been increasingly replaced with dual-door designs that allow each occupant to move in and out without climbing over the other.
—New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Typically, boats engaged in the illicit drug trade would be intercepted at sea by federal authorities and occupants are processed through the criminal justice system.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
This system measures the body temperature of a seat’s occupant and adjusts that of the seat according to the temperature set on the climate system.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Single-door teardrops were very common a decade or two ago, in the early days of the 21st century teardrop resurgence, but have been increasingly replaced with dual-door designs that allow each occupant to move in and out without climbing over the other.
—New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Typically, boats engaged in the illicit drug trade would be intercepted at sea by federal authorities and occupants are processed through the criminal justice system.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for occupant
Noun
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But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Assembled at Port-La Nouvelle and towed 16 km offshore, the turbines now stand ready for the final stage of cable and grid connection works done by RTE, before starting to deliver clean energy to approximately 50,000 inhabitants each year.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Data from a 2024 study that my colleague and I published in the American Journal of Public Health demonstrates that Black Chicagoans were the only race group to experience significant increases in suicide among both male and female residents between 2015 and 2021.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Like Phoenix residents heading up to Flagstaff on a summer weekend, some desert mammals’ strategy to beat the heat is to simply move to a cooler place.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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John Burton, who championed liberal causes during his 40 years in California politics as an environmentalist, tenants’ rights advocate, and defender of the working class and labor, has died.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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New managers took over Olive Dell Ranch in 2019, and tenants have complained that the property has been neglected since then.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Occupant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occupant. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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