residential

as in familial

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Recent Examples of residential Officers quickly arrived on scene, found the man in the backyard of a neighboring home and arrested him in connection with residential burglary and trespassing, police said. Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025 This means that about 7 percent of all goods used in new residential construction originate from a foreign nation. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 Among those who worked in residential construction, 63 percent reported earning less than $15 an hour. Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Many places in the north reported damage to residential buildings, hospitals and temples, including in Chiang Mai, but the only casualties were reported in Bangkok. Arkansas Online, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for residential
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Adjective
  • With the arrival of a baby, the stakes of those familial responsibilities become much higher, especially considering Galactus may destroy the planet before Franklin reaches his first milestones.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the years of familial fighting, both Nick and Aaron shared their grief on social media.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • President Trump, meanwhile, has labeled Tesla vandalism an act of domestic terrorism and threatened to send perpetrators to an El Salvador prison.
    Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sources of 2023 household debt in the US include: Credit Cards: $1.13 trillion Mortgage: $12.25 trillion Auto Loans: 1.61 trillion Student Loans: $1.6 trillion Outstanding balances also include debt from retail credit cards, consumer loans and other non-household expenses.
    Kara Nelson, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Hancock said in the statement that his family canceled their traditional multi-household Thanksgiving celebration.
    NBC News, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020

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“Residential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residential. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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