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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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visit

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noun

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as in stay
a temporary residing as another's guest my aunt always looks forward to her weeklong annual visit with her mother

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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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To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page. Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 19 July 2025 For more information about the event or to learn more about the VIP experience, visit www.cardiff101.com or follow @cardiff101mainstreet on Instagram for ongoing updates. News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025
Noun
Yet Law & Order never had intimate scenes with murderers like me, like when my mom and aunt Mary Ann came up for extended visits as part of the family-reunion program. John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025 Kalra is also accused of billing Medicaid for in-person visits and counseling sessions that never actually happened. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for visit
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Verb
  • At Holland State Park, which is run by the state and hasn’t seen lifeguards in three decades, there’s talk among Park Township officials of implementing a lifeguard pilot program.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 21 July 2025
  • Some spots of fire east of the freeway were seen, along with south of Lindbergh Hill, the team said.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 20 July 2025
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  • The best way to protect yourself from poor air quality is to stay indoors, especially when the Air Quality Index reaches above 101, which is classified as unhealthy for sensitive groups, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
  • Stricter screening sent the minors’ shelter stays soaring.
    Nicol León, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
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  • While chatting with Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports, Metcalf sent a very bold warning to the rest of the league.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • In 1992, Epstein joined Trump for a party at Mar-a-Lago, where a video shows Trump chatting and laughing next to Epstein.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • Epstein's ghost is beginning to haunt the White House.
    USA Today, USA Today, 20 July 2025
  • And replicas, however lovingly built, aren’t haunted in the same way.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • However, today most young people rarely call each other.
    Andrea Wigfield, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.
    WSJ, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • Recent research from the Property and Environment Research Center estimates that a $100 surcharge per foreign visitor to Yellowstone would raise an additional $55 million — roughly four times the current entry fee revenue — while reducing total visitation by just 1.3%.
    Tate Watkins, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Roughly 122 million adult Americans, or 49 percent of the population, visited a casino for gambling or other entertainment purposes in that span—the highest level of casino visitation on record.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
Verb
  • But management is talking more and more about its opportunity to ship gas to data centers, especially in Texas.
    MoneyShow, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Who were your favorites to see walk on set? Sandler: None of them would talk to Julie.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • Trump has also frequented his own resort properties, notably Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, for personal retreats or closed-press political dinners, but these have generally not been categorized as public events.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
  • The excursion will also feature a trip to Strickland Bay in search of dolphins and other wildlife that frequent these waters.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025

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“Visit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visit. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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