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
The boat was unoccupied when the fire started.
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The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
The notion of taxing unoccupied second homes as a way to address housing affordability is not unique to San Diego.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
But the apartment wasn’t unoccupied.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
Sunday night, firefighters arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the two-story unoccupied building, according to a Kansas City Fire Department news release.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
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The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
The notion of taxing unoccupied second homes as a way to address housing affordability is not unique to San Diego.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
But the apartment wasn’t unoccupied.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
Sunday night, firefighters arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the two-story unoccupied building, according to a Kansas City Fire Department news release.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unoccupied
Adjective
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Detroit fire crews extinguished the fire at the vacant home, and no injuries were reported.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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Like so many other places in regional Britain, its mines and mills have been replaced by retail and service industry jobs; its local stores now vape shops or vacant altogether.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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If a circle is empty, for example, players must learn to move their hands in the opposite direction to complete that task.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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No smoke wafting through the parking lots, which included multiple empty sections.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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China deployed ships to guard the uninhabited Scarborough in 2012, after weeks of a tense standoff with Philippine ships, prompting Manila to bring its disputes with Beijing to international arbitration, which the Philippines largely won.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
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Homeownership feels increasingly out of reach for many Americans, but not for this group of creatures, which slithered into an uninhabited home in Arkansas, much to the chagrin of the realtor trying to sell it.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoccupied. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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