resident

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Here you can chase hummingbirds, roam through the never-crowded garden and “visit Stoneview’s resident quails, which have their own fenced-in compound called, ‘Quallywood,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Her youngest, age 6, loves to call her parents’ smartphones “even when we’re home,” the Chicago resident said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

He maintained that the NHS delivered almost 95% of planned activity during the resident doctor strikes in December.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

"It is the first time in my life that I experience a total closure" of the Holy Sepulchre, Jack Straw, a 52-year-old resident of Jerusalem’s Old City, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

“Impossible! I am an old resident in this neighbourhood, sir, and I never heard of a Mrs. Rochester at Thornfield Hall.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë