DWELLERS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

dwellers

noun

plural of dweller

as in residents

one who lives permanently in a place the kinds of nuisances that city dwellers are all too familiar with

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Recent Examples of dwellers The service As elsewhere in Bahia, service is warm and friendly—albeit not quite as fast and efficient as city-dwellers may expect. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Modern farmhouse dwellers and cottagecore fanatics, take note. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026 In the show, eight celebrity city dwellers with almost no survival skills are dropped into a remote natural environment for 18 days. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 It’s seen as particularly beneficial for apartment dwellers and renters. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Hours at a time isn’t an exaggeration, especially since the 14S lasted a jaw-dropping 38 hours and 29 minutes in our video testing, which is the kind of endurance coffee shop dwellers can only dream about. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 Beneath the balcony, this street, witness to and confidante of the entire twenty-three years of these young people’s lives, was languishing in the fragrant July night, densely thronged with strolling city dwellers even now. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026 Oakland is implementing a new encampment policy that allows inhabited vehicles to be cited and towed more quickly, drawing the ire of RV dwellers who say the city is reneging on its promises. — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 The change in psychological distress levels since the pandemic was twice as large for solo dwellers in remote-friendly jobs compared with those who live with others, the Science study found. — Cordilia James, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026

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DeSantis also warned residents far outside the cone to watch for tornadoes, which can spawn before the core of Isaias moves ashore.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Older residents here repeat a mantra that the country has been through worse, notably when Iraq launched Scud missiles in 1991 during the first Gulf War.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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The researchers propose that this variability in brightness is caused by the rapid evolution of fresh debris through further impacts and changes in the orbits of the system's occupants.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
The four-count lawsuit alleges that High Meadow was negligent and reckless in allowing more than 150 students into a pool that had a maximum capacity of 105 occupants.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

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