as in visits
a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasons
the pastor and curate could hardly express how honored they were to receive this visitation from the bishop
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Recent Examples of visitations
When his body was destroyed, as per the folkloric procedure, the vampiric visitations stopped.
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Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Both Ahmed and Karia spoke of family members having seen ghosts at funeral ceremonies, which made sense of the visitations Hamlet’s father makes after death.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Both Ahmed and Karia spoke of family members having seen ghosts at funeral ceremonies, which made sense of the visitations Hamlet’s father makes after death.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visitations
visits
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Realize the Saints have come marching into Soldier Field on four consecutive visits to Chicago and left with a victory.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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With one son only seeing me for 45 min in the past 5 years and the other with only 4 visits in the past 5 years.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Visitations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visitations. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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