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resident

[rez-i-duhnt] / ˈrɛz ɪ dənt /


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As a resident and an economist, what do you make of the new mayor, Zohran Mamdani?

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The BMA added resident doctors' pay is 20% lower in real terms than it was in 2008.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The resident doctor strike is likely to cause significant disruption to services, with those formerly called junior doctors making up nearly half of the medical workforce in the NHS.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Nazih Yahya, a septuagenarian resident with the wearied tone of someone long accustomed to conflict, expected the Israeli military to treat residents in non-Shiite villages differently from areas it counts as bastions of Hezbollah support.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Justice Albert Louis Sachs, one of the writers of South Africa’s first democratic constitution, is a resident of Clifton, South Africa, the Cape Town beach community off which the São José sank.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler