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Noun
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Mischie’s comedy takes place in a remote, mountainous village in Romania where every one of the inhabitants has applied for government benefits, claiming disabilities of various kinds.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
7 May 2026 -
If an ostrich egg reveals rainy conditions, that means an individual human settlement likely also felt that precipitation—and maybe the inhabitants changed their behavior accordingly.—
Hannah Richter,
Scientific American,
7 May 2026
Noun
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At the commissioner’s court meeting, area residents universally condemned the idea, variously calling it a Trojan horse, a foothold, a wasp’s nest, and a bribe.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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In the same time frame, inner-ring suburbs have lost residents.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Police are looking to speak with occupants of a black Nissan registered in Topeka.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 May 2026
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Other occupants identified, prior deportations noted A passenger was detained on an immigration hold, while a third occupant fled and has not been located.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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The apartment also seemed to live in a separate ecosystem from the rest of my block, with the home dwellers and apartment dwellers rarely interacting.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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In a classic Silver move, those bottom dwellers are actually penalized.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Farther north in Lake County, Hawthorn had faced the loss of several major tenants in the years leading up to the pandemic.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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Developers, who have already invested around $20 million, will seek letters of intent from potential data center tenants in the coming weeks.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
Noun
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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
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Alarmed by growing difficulties for skyway-level residents, workers and shop owners, Kehmeier joined forces with fellow skyway denizens to launch Friends of the Skyway in January.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
10 May 2026
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But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
2 May 2026
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“Cohabitants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitants. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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