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Recent Examples of squatter
True stories from those affected by squatters helped the law get passed in the Sunshine State.
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Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
Currently, if squatters enter a property and take it over illegally, the rightful owners face significant challenges in evicting the people and reclaiming their property.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 July 2024
One resident recalled when a squatter was attacking a neighbor with a steel rebar and a beer bottle, according to KABC.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
The following year, neighbors continued to voice concerns of several squatters living on the site.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
Currently, if squatters enter a property and take it over illegally, the rightful owners face significant challenges in evicting the people and reclaiming their property.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 July 2024
One resident recalled when a squatter was attacking a neighbor with a steel rebar and a beer bottle, according to KABC.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
The following year, neighbors continued to voice concerns of several squatters living on the site.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squatter
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The first colonists would encounter a barren landscape without water or breathable atmosphere, bathed in deadly solar and galactic radiation from which Earthbound humans are protected by our planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving in the 1600s with some of the earliest European colonists, according to the New York Public Library.Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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One man changed everything, an MVP of MVPs, the greatest Dodgers newcomer since Valenzuela, the greatest Dodgers season ever.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Opening with a shot of Laura questioning Raúl, the teaser cuts quickly to a close-up of one of his architectural models before shifting feverishly through his emotions as clips of the marauding newcomers are fiercely intertwined with his declining sanity.Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Determined to bring Franck back, Elsa begins trying to do the aliens’ bidding, which adds a slight ticking-clock quality to the narrative.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The Philadelphia alien wants to replicate the universal acclaim that greeted Eternal Atake back in 2020, a moment when Gen Z and old heads alike finally recognized them as a generational talent.Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Italy this summer doubled its flat tax on the overseas incomes of wealthy foreigners who transfer their tax residency to Italy, to 200,000 euros ($217,000).Robert Frank, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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One of the separatist groups, the Baloch Liberation Army, has also attacked foreigners.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Gaylord Wilshire, as he was called, is better remembered today as a real estate developer and pioneer of billboard advertising.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Initiatives like Tokyo’s showcase how cities can shift from being major polluters to pioneers of green energy and resilience.Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Squatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squatter. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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