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as in location
the area or space occupied by or intended for something this field is the intended site for a new shopping mall

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Verb
The Seoul portion of the tour begins with a hike along Inwangsan Mountain Trail, a sacred shamanic site, then continues into the city’s historic heart. Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 The Bortle scale is a numerical scale that ranges from one to nine, with one being an excellent dark sky site with no light pollution and nine being an area with considerable light pollution and many night sky objects invisible to the naked eye. Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025 The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation. Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025 Specific plans for redeveloping the site have not yet been presented. Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for site
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Noun
  • But thanks to its size and location – spread out over 1,700 miles across the Pacific – Hawaii was once again spared a direct landfall.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And occultations themselves depend on the viewer's location on Earth, as the viewing angle shifts with latitude.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kepler further situates its progress within China’s broader push in robotics, stating that domestic innovators have emerged as significant contributors to industry growth and that K2 aims to translate technology upgrades into practical, multi-scenario operations.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But a nurse, teacher, or firefighter who made the exact same income and was similarly situated economically in every other way would have a federal income tax bill of $9,060 – more than twice as much.
    Ben Ritz, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Providing both a blueprint for success and supplemental funds to other racing venues within the state, the piece of property within rock-throwing distance of the Tennessee state line has helped initiate a renaissance.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Emmy Awards have been held at the venue since 2008, formerly known as Microsoft Theater and Nokia Theatre.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Likewise, the internet has made fundraising much easier with the use of online payment methods, which are easy to set up and difficult to trace.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • If no alternative exists, set up camp in a valley, ravine, or other low-lying areas.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is sending shockwaves through Capitol Hill, a place that is no stranger to political violence.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The central solarium is a great place to unwind with a book and a cup of tea in the afternoons, too.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another was stuck in the lockdown at the school.
    Katie Langford, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The phrase stuck and Wiegman used it throughout the Euros.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Splunk’s new approach embeds agentic AI directly into Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics, which continuously analyzes telemetry, flags anomalies, diagnoses root causes and recommends fixes.
    Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • All this plays out against the Borg’s family home in Oslo, an old-world cottage that looks sprung from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, but holding generations of memories and trauma, embedded in its walls.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In February, Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an arrest detainer requesting local authorities notify ICE before Cucol-Bol is released, the agency told CNN.
    Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The quickening of time will soon expose a partial, temporary truth, lodged within my grandmother’s premonition.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025

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