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as in to see
to make a social call upon
the club ladies make a point of visiting everyone who moves into the neighborhood
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as in to stay
to reside as a temporary guest
an old friend who comes to visit for a month every summer
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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
tries to visit with her best friend on the phone at least once a week
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as in to haunt
to go to or spend time in often
visit Ireland for a few weeks every year
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as in to call
to make a brief visit
stopped to visit with my father on the way out of town
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as in visitation
a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasons
came by for a quick visit
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Recent Examples of visit
Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Family members and others authorized by the patient can visit.
—Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
Taras also faces a state charge stemming from his visit to an elementary school attended by his son, in violation of a court order.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Warsh has been working as a visiting economics fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located at Stanford University.
—Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Family members and others authorized by the patient can visit.
—Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
The concierge team will gladly organize everything from hiking to whale-watching tours and visits to local dairy farms.
—Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
Taras also faces a state charge stemming from his visit to an elementary school attended by his son, in violation of a court order.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for visit
Verb
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Al-Maliki ended his second term in 2014 after the Obama administration’s growing frustration with his security blind spots that saw the rise of the Islamic State in the same year across a large swathe of Iraqi and Syrian territory.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Someone who should not stumble into this, who should not have to see the grave of her loved one defaced.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Add these to your piles this February, and stay safe!—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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With so many options, consider this your beginner’s guide to where to stay, eat, and play on this luxurious island.—
Molly Barstein,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In videos obtained by PEOPLE, Earle and the former Patriots quarterback, 48, could be seen chatting and dancing together in a club.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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On board, passengers chat politics in Finnish dining cars, clamber into couchettes above strangers on the Trans-Siberian, and share samosas on India’s many raucous mail trains.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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This particularly applies to an opening visual metaphor, in which an old veteran is haunted by a vision of his past, which proves more excessive and obvious than enlightening.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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In the first few weeks of 2026, three people were shot and killed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents, prompting nationwide outrage and calls for the agency to be defunded and for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to be abolished.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
2 Feb. 2026
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The body naturally makes a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, which helps to regulate appetite and food intake.—
Shiv Sudhakar,
FOXNews.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Sakura Square can mirror the success of other cultural destinations, like Seattle’s Chinatown, where 76% of spending comes from non-residents, driving regional visitation and sustaining Downtown vibrancy.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Exactly one month later, at the turn of the New Year, Uzbekistan enacted a similar 30-day visa-free visitation program for Americans.—
Brittany Chang,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Jan. 2026
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As the industry now begins talking seriously about agentic AI, a more independent and decision-capable form of artificial intelligence, the question is no longer whether AI will reshape cars, but how far it should be allowed to go.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Many survivors have been helped by talking things through with a licensed psychotherapist.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The city sent a news release urging caution for residents who frequent that lake, located less than a mile south of Eola and one of the city’s most scenic water basins.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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This is an urban hotel, with an ultra-chic vibe, frequented by modern urbanites from all over the world.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Visit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visit. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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