as in to occupy
to be in a place for a period of time
We need to protect the forests and also the wildlife that inhabits them. The people who inhabit the island take great pride in their art.
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Home to about 24,000 people, the archipelago consists of 80 islands, only a few of which are inhabited.
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Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 6 July 2025
Some of this trash, Ibarra predicted, could end up being ingested by Kemp’s ridley turtles, an endangered species of sea turtle that inhabits the area.
—Ivonne Valdes, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
The report will give information on which units are safe to be inhabited, which ones residents can safely enter to collect things but aren’t habitable, and which ones are unsafe to be entered under any circumstances.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Lima, home to 10 million people, has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 6 July 2025
Some of this trash, Ibarra predicted, could end up being ingested by Kemp’s ridley turtles, an endangered species of sea turtle that inhabits the area.
—Ivonne Valdes, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
The report will give information on which units are safe to be inhabited, which ones residents can safely enter to collect things but aren’t habitable, and which ones are unsafe to be entered under any circumstances.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Lima, home to 10 million people, has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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Interrogating the ways different myths occupy their own unique spaces establishes pathways into existences of literary immortality, offering prisms into the art of storytelling.—
Irenosen Okojie
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Founded in 2006, the center had previously occupied a single, tiny room on the University Union’s first floor.—
Calista Oetama,
Sacbee.com,
11 July 2025
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Talking with detainees about living conditions is the most important part of a tour, Eskamani said.—
Kairi Lowery,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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One of the things that makes Batman Begins so definitive a depiction of Batman’s origin is that this film, like its sequel The Dark Knight, depicted Gotham City as a living breathing character in the story.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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