Thesaurus results for RESIDES

resides

verb

present tense third-person singular of reside

as in lives

to have a home he's a freelance writer who resides in the Midwest

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Recent Examples of resides Gooden’s brother Alan Cutler resides in Buffalo Grove and is of the Maine East High School Class of 1984. — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 Klausner cited Succession as an example of how much great comedy writing now resides in dramas. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026 Born in Moscow and raised in East London, Lova now resides in Canterbury in the south of England. — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026 Nichols was inspired by what Richard Linklater had accomplished with the Austin Film Society and its impact on the local film scene in Austin, Texas, where Nichols resides. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026 By that logic, the authorial content of the work resides in the structure the artist has designed, not in any particular manifestation. — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Though Kaya still resides in Europe with Klitschko, Panettiere stayed in regular contact with her child before her death. — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 Greene doesn’t have to look farther than across the clubhouse at Great American Ball Park, where Antone’s locker resides. — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026 That’s where, of course, first-team All-Pro Jordyn Brooks resides. — Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026

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Just think of how many (fictional) lives the doctors on The Pitt could have saved in the same amount of time.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
These days, caretakers occupy the micronation, and the family lives mostly on the mainland.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

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Every other entry either dwells in its characters’ filth throughout or reveals a new level of depravity as the climactic joke.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2026
Discussion about The Matrix’s influence invariably dwells on its ample visual contributions to action filmmaking.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

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