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  • verb Present participle of reside.

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Examples

  • President Obama is at least trying to get us out of the mess that George W. created, but yet, change is not coming fast enough for Florida ..... there's a fool born everyday and they seem to be in residing in Florida.

    Obama approval dips to new low in Florida 2009

  • The Overlook Hotel, where the family will be residing, is the site of an atrocity involving an earlier caretaker who murdered his wife and daughters while employed in the same capacity.

    2009 August 2009

  • Her chaplain residing with her in the Tower claimed not to know how to perform mass properly.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • Carruso or whatever be his name residing at La Ferté Macé, Garibaldi was in the habit of expressing himself -- chiefly at the card table, be it said -- in a curious language which might have been mistaken for French.

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • Pensilvany country, to a cousin of his of the same name residing in the neighbourhood of this very town of Bala in Merionethshire, where you and

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Hence charity, whose object is the last end, should be described as residing in the will rather than in the free-will.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • Renouncing the idea of residing in my own country, I resolved, I promised, to inhabit the Hermitage; and, whilst the building was drying, Madam D'Epinay took care to prepare furniture, so that everything was ready the following spring.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • But as time passed and as the age of the Kami became more remote, a feeling of awe began to pervade the rites more strongly than a sense of family affection, and the idea of residing and worshipping in the same place assumed a character of sacrilege.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • 'My principal object in calling here was to inform you, Miss Lake, that you must quite abandon the idea of residing in the vicar's house, as you proposed, unless you wish me to state explicitly to him and to Mrs. Wylder the insurmountable objections which exist to any such arrangement.

    Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • Renouncing the idea of residing in my own country, I resolved, I promised, to inhabit the Hermitage; and, whilst the building was drying, Madam D'Epinay took care to prepare furniture, so that everything was ready the following spring.

    The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782

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