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
For context, areas managed by the National Park Service received a record-breaking 332 million visitations last year.
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Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
When his body was destroyed, as per the folkloric procedure, the vampiric visitations stopped.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Both Ahmed and Karia spoke of family members having seen ghosts at funeral ceremonies, which made sense of the visitations Hamlet’s father makes after death.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
When his body was destroyed, as per the folkloric procedure, the vampiric visitations stopped.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Both Ahmed and Karia spoke of family members having seen ghosts at funeral ceremonies, which made sense of the visitations Hamlet’s father makes after death.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visitations
visits
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The Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation’s 2023 report found that nearly four in ten Arizonans without dental insurance skip visits due to cost, and another 39 percent cite the inability to afford extra out-of-pocket expenses.—
Sixteen Ramos,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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That's because those pieces influence whether a story reaches beyond the core audience and earns return visits later that day.—
Malana VanTyler,
Ascend Agency,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Visitations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visitations. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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