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Recent Examples of squatter
Property owners would have to pay the sheriff's office a civil eviction fee and the hourly rate of the deputy who would have to stand by as the squatter is removed.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Homeless squatters take over California luxury RV parking lot
Homeless squatters have taken over a luxury RV parking lot in City of Industry, California.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
First empty trailers appeared, then came squatters.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
However, the law did not cover squatters occupying commercial properties—an omission that lawmakers in Tallahassee are now trying to fix.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Homeless squatters take over California luxury RV parking lot
Homeless squatters have taken over a luxury RV parking lot in City of Industry, California.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
First empty trailers appeared, then came squatters.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
However, the law did not cover squatters occupying commercial properties—an omission that lawmakers in Tallahassee are now trying to fix.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squatter
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Correspondent Mo Rocca explores the dramatic events of that fateful day 250 years ago; and hears from reenactors about why the colonists' ideals still hold true today.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Now, that all began to change in 1774 when the conflict between the colonists and Britain began to heat up.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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The increase was mainly a result of the massive influx of out-of-state newcomers sparked by the rise of remote work, which allowed many Americans to relocate to more affordable, more livable cities and turn their back on expensive metropolises.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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First as Jacques Demy’s Madonna figure in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), then in films by Truffaut, Polanski, and Buñuel, then during her stint in Hollywood and her later career as Andre Téchiné’s muse and inspiration to Millennial newcomers, Deneuve embodies a leftist French cinema ideal.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Eventually the aliens will slip up and do something unhuman a little too nonchalantly.—
Bluesky Social,
Bluesky Social,
22 Apr. 2025
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By the time the third movie in the franchise rolls around, the zombies, cheerleaders, and werewolves face off with a group of invading aliens with uncertain intentions and (no spoilers) an unexpected secret about Addison’s true identity is revealed.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
22 Apr. 2025
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Athletic were founded in 1898 and originally played with foreigners after British workers and Basque students who had lived there brought football to Bilbao.—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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For a country with more than thirty trillion dollars in outstanding government debt, about eight trillion of which is owned by foreigners, the spectre of a weakened Treasury bond market is alarming.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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The early pioneer in self-driving technology, Waymo has managed to beat Elon Musk-led Tesla and a myriad of now-defunct autonomous vehicle startups to the U.S. market.—
Lora Kolodny,Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025
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All this is to say that the longest in the world may have actually taken place in the woods, where more skiers than ever are now skimming the backcountry meltwater all spring long—just like the Slush Cup pioneers, Cyril Paris and Cliff White.—
Anna Fiorentino,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Squatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squatter. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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