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occupied

adjective as in busy

adjective as in inhabited; in use

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The conclave captures a dilemma that senior executives—and management authors—have faced more frequently while the first “CEO president” occupied the oval office.

From Quartz

NEVs currently occupy around 5% of China’s market, which still makes China the world’s No.

From Fortune

Still, no one would have expected the best defensive team in England to occupy space on the goals-against table next to three teams that played in the second-tier league earlier this year.

Plotz said podcasting and on-demand audio now occupies just about every niche where radio once dominated — music, national talk news, sports — but not local news.

From Digiday

He wasn’t the first to say that the Earth occupies the center of the universe, but he was the most dogmatic about it, and believed he had established it to be incontrovertibly true — by using logic.

Guilt, when dispensed in the circumstances Morris occupied, is the anti-Viagra.

Visitors today can keep watch over the scene in the booth at the end of the bar that Capone and his cronies once occupied.

The company moved into what was called Bertha Island, and soon become synonymous with the land it occupied.

The Israeli military occupied the south of Lebanon from 1982 until 2000.

Inside two women screamed in front of a bed that occupied the center of the room.

In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.

At the hotel he found the bench outside occupied chiefly by Jean.

Infantry and cavalry approached the island, quite unsuspicious of its being occupied.

But dwelling means a special kind of structure—a building occupied by man—a place to live in.

Scouts reported that Porter still occupied his camp, and showed no sign of moving.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to occupied, such as: employed, engaged, engrossed, working, active, and clocked up.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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