as in inhabitant
one who lives permanently in a place
a resident of Atlanta
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Recent Examples of resident
Taylor Croft,
AJC.com,
21 June 2026
With crews slowly regaining control of the three brush fires in West Miami-Dade that have burned over 20,000 acres in the last week, residents can expect better conditions including road reopenings and better air quality conditions.
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Kairi Lowery,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2026
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
According to our resident audio expert, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra stands out for its class-leading active noise cancellation.
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Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
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Noun
The nature of the breach and its impact on residents is unclear.
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Taylor Croft,
AJC.com,
21 June 2026
With crews slowly regaining control of the three brush fires in West Miami-Dade that have burned over 20,000 acres in the last week, residents can expect better conditions including road reopenings and better air quality conditions.
—
Kairi Lowery,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2026
Adjective
And, of course, no Liberty celebration would be complete without its resident style icon.
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Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
According to our resident audio expert, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra stands out for its class-leading active noise cancellation.
—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resident
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Besieging a city frequently looks like squeezing the life from its inhabitants slowly before launching drone attacks on their farms and villages.
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The only permanent inhabitants of the country are seminomadic Cree Indians who trap the waterways in the winter and congregate in the summer at trading posts such as Mistassini Post and Rupert House.
Adjective
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Though native to East Africa and nonmigratory, the snail has made its way around the world, including to other parts of Africa, Hawaii, the Pacific islands, the Caribbean, Brazil and much of subtropical Asia.
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So, there's a chance that the commercial populations were simply originally source from a nonmigratory population.
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In all, five RVs were destroyed in the fire but all occupants staying at the park made it out safely with no injuries reported.
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Two occupants had opened fire before fleeing the scene, police said.
Adjective
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These parts of the lithosphere are not stationary and move slowly.
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Surplus wireless capacity met unmet consumer broadband demand, with the physics of a stationary receiver doing the rest.
Adjective
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The question then becomes whether the immobile Goldin would stand as such an alternative.
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The highly effective treatment involves sterilizing screwworm pupae -- the immobile stage of the screwworm before metamorphosis -- by exposing them to gamma radiation and then releasing them into the wild to mate with fertile females.
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“Resident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resident. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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