preoccupancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for preoccupancy
Noun
  • The displays track the journey of the trains and provide information about car occupancy.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The commercial real estate market in New York and other major cities has lagged behind national occupancy rates coming out of Covid.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since Ukraine is not part of NATO, Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 did not trigger Article 5, though the United States and other member states rushed to provide military and diplomatic assistance to Kyiv.
    Matt Spetalnick, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • His father landed on the beaches of Normandy during the allied invasion in World War II, while his sister was a captain in the Navy.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, as researchers led by MIT economist David Autor have found in examining 80 years of census data, most jobs today are in occupations that that didn’t exist in 1940.
    Jamie Merisotis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • He was born in the Soviet-occupation zone of Germany in 1945 -- one month before the end of World War II.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Preoccupancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preoccupancy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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