preoccupancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for preoccupancy
Noun
  • Standard mortgage documents commonly include an occupancy clause that requires the borrower to use the property as their principal residence for at least a year.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • No notice, just like when the city added several dollars in transient occupancy taxes to every guest bill with virtually no notice on May 1.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This time producer Brad Ingelsby tapped Mark Ruffalo as a depressed and traumatized FBI agent leading a task force investigating a series of home invasions targeting drug dens in the area.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kim, Xi and Putin gathered for the military parade amid Ukrainian and Western concerns over the collaboration of the three nations in bolstering Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ongoing since February 2022.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The deduction is available to taxpayers who receive qualified tips in occupations listed as customarily and regularly receiving tips on or before December 31, 2024.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The speech marked the foundation of an independent Vietnam after nearly a century of French colonial rule and a brief Japanese occupation during World War II, but the French did not recognise the new country and fought a decade-long war, which ended with their defeat in 1954.
    Phuong Nguyen, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Preoccupancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preoccupancy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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