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tenancy

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Definition of tenancy

as in occupancy

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Recent Examples of tenancy Theirs was truly a tenuous tenancy. — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026 However, recent amendments clarified that parks are not automatically considered closed if destroyed by a disaster, and that additional steps are required to terminate tenancy rights. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026 In northern China, tenancy was the norm, mostly held by at-will tenants with little bargaining power, paying as much as half their output in rent, while in richer and more commercialized southern China, owner-worker systems were the norm. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 The overall premise is based on Sokolov and his wife’s tenancy at a Russian apartment building a decade ago. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tenancy

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Noun

Soundstage occupancy has dropped from 90% in 2022 to 62% last year.

— Noah Wyle, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Colorado nursing and assisted living facilities hold a total of about 46,000 beds, with a nursing home occupancy rate around 80%, according to industry data.

— Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 5 July 2026

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In video of the occupation, Tubbs and his trusty dog Pujo can be seen sitting atop a towering twenty-foot platform, precariously balanced on two long poles anchored by an unwieldy pair of cables.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Or in Rabat, the city established by France as the administrative and political capital of Morocco, during its forty-nine-year occupation of the country, and the home of a gleaming new soccer academy, a symbol of the nation’s sporting ambitions?

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026

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The wardrobe malfunction capped off a historic night on July 4, as Styles celebrated being the first musician to perform a 12-night residency at Wembley Stadium as part of his Together, Together tour.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 8 July 2026
During a 2019-20 artist residency with New York City’s Department of Records and Information Services, Weist mined municipal archives for records revealing how city government had defined, supported and monitored past artists.

— Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

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