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preoccupancy

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Definition of preoccupancy

as in occupancy

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Tourism decision-makers need to think beyond hotel occupancy and visitor counts.

— Rachel J.C. Fu, Sun Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2026
By night, several slapdash dwellings stood ready for occupancy.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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The attacks followed a week of diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to get traction for negotiations on ending Moscow's invasion that began 4½ years ago.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
This photograph shows a fire burning at the Dobrobut medical centre following a Russian aerial attack on Kyiv on 28 September 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

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Justifying the use of force on their campuses, schools primarily deferred to just this idea of protocol, citing arcane policy mandates to disband encampments and occupations so that academic production could resume its flow.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
First, there’s the occupation and the violence itself that somehow becomes ‘normal’ or is viewed as normal.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

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