visitations

plural of visitation
as in visits
a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasons the pastor and curate could hardly express how honored they were to receive this visitation from the bishop

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Recent Examples of visitations Nearly 1,500 families were served by more than 8,000 home visitations that support early literacy through language development and age-appropriate books and toys. Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2026 In the new film, a shadowy government organization, not a handful of ethically minded scientists, tries to hide the existence and terrestrial visitations of aliens. Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 12 June 2026 Some were denied visitations and phone calls. Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 The division houses secret evidence of UAPs and nonhuman visitations to Earth dating back to the Nixon administration. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026 The Colorado Department of Corrections has lifted its suspension on visitations at all facilities statewide except one after a 27-year-old inmate and a 59-year-old inmate were killed and another was injured in an incident over the weekend at a southern Colorado prison. Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 8 June 2026 In short, there is no truly meaningful evidence here for aliens, alien visitations, alien abductions, or anything like that. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026 Attendance at domestic parks did ease 1% but the company attributed that to the lingering impact of slower international visitations and competition from Universal’s Epic Universe, which opened in Orlando last May. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 May 2026
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visits
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  • And the burritos at Mean Bean were satisfying enough to warrant multiple visits.
    Tom Campbell, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Branch library program attendance rose 10% in fiscal 2026 compared with the previous year, while attendance at research libraries increased 6%; overall visits climbed 2% and 4%, respectively, across all ages according to data provided by NYPL.
    Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

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