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 risk of injury or property damage from each individual reentry is very small, given that much debris burns up in the air and the pieces that don't usually come down in the ocean or on unoccupied land.
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 May 2025
En route from the gleaming airport terminal to our hotel in Lhasa, the nearly empty freeway and unoccupied high-rise apartments spoke to China’s massive investments in developing infrastructure in Tibet.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
In February 2023, Levy was introduced to his new Santa Rita Jail cellmate, an El Cerrito man named Yuri Brand who was in jail for allegedly spending two days in a Piedmont resident’s unoccupied home, when the homeowner was away.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
Advertisements are constantly shooting into our every unoccupied nook and cranny, but the good ones are now sensitive to our rawest family dynamics.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 7 May 2025
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 May 2025
En route from the gleaming airport terminal to our hotel in Lhasa, the nearly empty freeway and unoccupied high-rise apartments spoke to China’s massive investments in developing infrastructure in Tibet.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
In February 2023, Levy was introduced to his new Santa Rita Jail cellmate, an El Cerrito man named Yuri Brand who was in jail for allegedly spending two days in a Piedmont resident’s unoccupied home, when the homeowner was away.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
Advertisements are constantly shooting into our every unoccupied nook and cranny, but the good ones are now sensitive to our rawest family dynamics.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unoccupied
Adjective
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Sadly, the Skirvin closed its doors in the late '80s and sat vacant for two decades.—
Anne Roderique-Jones,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2025
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Big cities like Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, New York, Miami and San Francisco are also being hit by the effects of vacant office buildings.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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American retailers cried foul and indicated Santa Claus’s sled would be empty.—
Bruce Yandle,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2025
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Companies that are serious about the future of work know that AI implementation without workforce enablement is an empty investment.—
Sol Rashidi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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The area includes buffer zones along the border with Israel as well as the southern city of Rafah, which is now mostly uninhabited, and other large areas that Israel has ordered to be evacuated.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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The uninhabited Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China, are claimed by Beijing, which has intensified its assertive coast guard patrols since Tokyo nationalized the islands in 2012.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoccupied. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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