- present participle of reside.
residing
Example Sentences
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Nearly 400 million of the roughly 900 million people residing in affected areas live in Africa, primarily within the Sahel region.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is whether in some cities, there are communities of different culture, ethnicity and even language, residing right next to each other but living totally separate lives.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The measure retroactively applies a tax on billionaires who were residing in California as of Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Over three-quarters of the Ghanaian returnees had overstayed their visas, while all 854 Nigerians were residing in South Africa illegally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Between 10,000 and 9000 B.C. the people living there may already have been residing year-round in villages, but they were still hunter-gatherers; crop cultivation began only in the succeeding millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
