preoccupancy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preoccupancy
Noun
  • That suit, which Lukenbill’s attorneys Brad Carroll and Michael Laino filed July 11, was primarily concerned with stopping efforts by the city to limit occupancy at the bar.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, FilmLA reported that sound stage occupancy is down by 63% while on-location production continues to decline as well.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though Russian craft have repeatedly violated NATO airspace during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the shootdowns over Poland represented the first time NATO had shot down Russian drones.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The project was originally inspired by a brochure, In Case of Emergency or War, which the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security began distributing to the public a few weeks before the invasion in early 2022.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Spanish bakers brought European bread-making techniques, which were later influenced by French baking during the 19th century under Emperor Maximilian and the French occupation.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But as the text reads, no Palestinian living under occupation will feel reassured that citizenship of any state will be available to them in the foreseeable future.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Preoccupancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preoccupancy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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