preoccupancy

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for preoccupancy
Noun
  • Over that period, the hotel’s occupancy has spiked nearly 30 percentage points, said General Manager Nadim Barrage.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • City records show no certificates of occupancy have been issued for the building in 2025 or 2026.
    Aarón Torres, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The meeting, which officials said would be the first trilateral talks since Moscow’s 2022 invasion, comes after a US envoy met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and Washington and Kyiv agreed to postwar security guarantees.
    Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The idea for a new Help album had been percolating since around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • What are people reading under occupation?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That is not what this occupation is about.
    Alex Derosier, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Preoccupancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preoccupancy. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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