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  • The new advanced safety features protect vehicle occupants.
    occupants = people who are inside of a vehicle
  • I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing.  (source)
    occupant = person who lives in a place
  • This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.  (source)
    occupant = someone who held a position
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  • The rafts baked along with their occupants, emitting a bitter smell.†  (source)
  • The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason  (source)
    occupant = person who resided
  • That would come in three more years, when the camp's occupancy maxed out.†  (source)
  • Two empty coffee cups sat on the kitchen table, the chairs pulled out to hold invisible occupants.†  (source)
  • Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk.  (source)
    occupant = person
  • I took a correspondence course, got a degree to teach the subject in buildings with a legal occupancy of less than one hundred.†  (source)
  • A few drawings by the occupants completed the cheerful atmosphere.†  (source)
  • The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.  (source)
    occupant = someone who lives in a specific place
  • The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†  (source)
  • It was awkward work, and each jolt of the sleds earned a cry of pain from their occupants.†  (source)
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