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residency

[rez-i-duhn-see] / ˈrɛz ɪ dən si /








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Some wanted the city to take it a step further, enhancing residency requirements for council members and running background checks on candidates, a move that the city attorney said would probably be illegal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Most jurisdictions confirm only basic qualifications for holding office including age, residency and voter registration.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

But it adds negotiations over police protection for the family "may reopen" owing to their permanent residency in the UK.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Documents from the Swedish Migration Agency, seen by the BBC, state an application for permanent residency for Mason was made on 21 December 2021.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

In his remarks to the US House of Representatives in 1952, he explains that his bill intends to provide permanent residency to “a most distinguished and courageous woman.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You” alchemized those months of research, plus a decade of drafts, residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts and Hedgebrook, as well as notebooks upon notebooks.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

Homeland Security data from the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year, the latest available, shows that of some 350,000 new permanent residencies issued, about 190,000—54 percent—were adjustments, which is in keeping with historical trends.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

He also sketched out the argument against residencies: Namely that the cost of the journey to the show is largely “transferred to the consumer.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

But they believe that residencies can mean fans miss out.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2026

Large parts of the northern portion of the island of Borneo, which have been recently incorporated into one or two regular residencies, and assimilated to their Javanese possessions.

From Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston




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