as in vacant
not being used, filled up, or lived in
an unoccupied house About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started. A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
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Recent Examples of unoccupied
Now there is an opportunity for new owners to invest fresh money into perfectly fine, but relatively unoccupied office buildings, and reimagine them.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The home was unoccupied and under construction at the time of the incident, the department said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The vehicle, which was unoccupied at the time, was seized by Cohoes Police as evidence.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Councilmember John Dumitru asked staff to develop an inventory of all unoccupied, underdeveloped or undeveloped properties and suggested making the full Grant Thornton report publicly available.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The home was unoccupied and under construction at the time of the incident, the department said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The vehicle, which was unoccupied at the time, was seized by Cohoes Police as evidence.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Councilmember John Dumitru asked staff to develop an inventory of all unoccupied, underdeveloped or undeveloped properties and suggested making the full Grant Thornton report publicly available.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unoccupied
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In September 2022, schoolteacher Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped during an early morning run, and her body was later found near a vacant duplex.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Sep. 2025
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Each apartment was different from the next, and the vacant unit (one daughter retreated to a Greek island) had views of the sea.—
Keith Flanagan,
Architectural Digest,
11 Sep. 2025
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But the White House should not settle for empty promises and construction photo-ops.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Jîna’s parents, Mojgan Eftekhari and Amjad Amini, sat beside her empty grave.—
Fatemeh Jamalpour,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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Billy Zane stars as Marlon Brando—a role he was born to play, look at him—in Bill Fishman’s adaptation of a memoir by architect Bernard Judge, whom Brando hired to build a compound on an uninhabited island in Tahiti in the ’70s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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In warmer months, rent a boat or jet ski and head to Goat Island to congregate with other boaters who love to swim and relax around the tiny, uninhabited island.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoccupied. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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