cliff dwellers

plural of cliff dweller

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Noun
  • Fees will be waived until Sunday, June 21 to encourage residents to adopt adult dogs ages six months and older and to make room for incoming strays.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
  • However, a growing number of residents have been regularly showing up to city council meetings advocating for a moratorium on data center development, pointing to issues with noise pollution, water use, and electricity costs.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Cape Verde’s flight paths For its World Cup debut, the smallest nation by population at the tournament is paying homage to the roughly 525,000 inhabitants who live on 10 volcanic islands off the coast of Africa.
    Steve Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Here, Sue Brown, left, of Athens, and Ann Massenburg, of Macon, law students, cuddle four of the tree-trunk inhabitants, which seem none too impressed.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • All 12 occupants of a skydiving plane that crashed Sunday about 60 miles south of Kansas City died, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
    Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 14 June 2026
  • Police said the occupants of the Toyota were taken to the hospital and had injuries that were not life-threatening.
    Jose Fabian, CBS News, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • Almost half of all US nationals’ applications are directed there, and Portugal and Italy are their top two options.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026
  • Gregg Berhalter then took it to another level, recruiting more than a dozen dual nationals — including Dest, Tillman, Balogun and Turner — in his five years as coach.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • This fantastic video doorbell is great for homeowners, apartment dwellers, or anyone looking to keep tabs on both visitors and deliveries.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 16 June 2026
  • The movie ends with the camera pulling back from her window to show the countless others alongside it, a skyscraper’s worth of office dwellers filling the screen.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The two were natives of Jamaica and knew each other from the neighborhood.
    Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
  • Lahontan Cutthroats Cutthroats are natives of the American West.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
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“Cliff dwellers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff%20dwellers. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.

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