abode
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Despite selling their Tarzana abode to Osaka in February 2022, the couple later realized that the home is truly where their hearts are.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a 37-year-old man of no fixed abode had been arrested after a "boat that had an emergency responder on board" was damaged in the Channel.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The couple snapped up the 6-acre estate and enlisted architect Charles Gwathmey to overhaul the abode.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Their main residence is a stunning Pacific Palisades abode, which has served as their home since 1985.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Alas, the cage, no matter how spacious of an abode, would not constitute a community and would be utterly merciless.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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Surrounded by undulating circles, spots and stripes, red-roofed Lebanese abodes and white-masted schooners traverse an unsettled horizon line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
We know that no matter how many abodes David cycles through, he is unlikely to ever find one that fits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Rodgers has held onto the property even as he has moved teams and picked up other abodes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
When people took sick, their temperatures rose and caused the body lice to seek more hospitable abodes.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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