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domicile

[dom-uh-sahyl, -suhl, doh-muh-] / ˈdɒm əˌsaɪl, -səl, ˈdoʊ mə- /


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The majority opinion roundly rejected Alito and Thomas’ arguments about domicile.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

All of this makes us wonder if corporate residence and legal domicile could, and perhaps should, become an issue in corporate governance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

He explained that domicile is determined by a person’s primary residence and their intent to return to that residence.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

So domicile can’t be the rule, because then you can’t unproblematically grant citizenship to the children of formerly enslaved people.

From Slate Apr. 1, 2026

With an indignant squawk, Rose led the way into their new domicile, tempted by a trail of grain.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

His co-author and Wharton economics colleague Kent Smetters says tools such as Zoom make it easier than before to move domiciles and avoid a state or local wealth tax.

From Barron's Jan. 3, 2026

And the world would be a far better place if everyone danced around their domiciles more often.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2025

The impressive exhibit features shells the size of small dogs, adult hand-sized sand dollars, giant horseshoe crab domiciles, column-like shells, leather corals, square sea stars and other curiosities among thousands.

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2023

Trump has a taste for gilding everything from domiciles to escalators.

From Washington Post Dec. 30, 2022

Fact: Many of the domiciles in Century Village do not have family rooms with desks.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Black people who were enslaved were undoubtedly domiciled here, but the same is not true of temporary visitors.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

“If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design,” Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

In a concurrence, Justice Gorsuch sounds like they could qualify as citizens: “If those parents are not domiciled here, then where are they domiciled?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Southern Peru Copper is a South American miner that is nearly 90% owned by Grupo Mexico and Spotify Technology is domiciled outside the U.S.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

Winter found them domiciled in their new quarters under no better roofs than they had quitted.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

The benefits of domiciling in the U.S. rarely outweighed the risks.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Many asset managers enjoy lower tax rates by domiciling funds in countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg.

From Reuters Jun. 2, 2021

That would be like domiciling at an EconoLodge.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2013

But his surveys of Manhattan subways, sewage, traffic and domiciling reveal conditions so overwhelmingly horrible that even Dreamer Strauss loses heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have mentioned the domiciling in Chester Square, which took place in February 1858, perhaps on the strength of the additional income from Oxford.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George




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