dweller

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Noun
  • Bachar lost his wife, his teenage son and his right leg in the attacks, in which 100 of the kibbutz’s 1,100 residents were killed.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
  • When the original owner of the bookstore needed to move locations down the road, the town residents showed up in droves, creating a human conveyor belt moving the books hand-to-hand down to the new location.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • In the late 90s and early 2000s, the team from La Coruña — a fishing city in northwest Spain of roughly 250,000 inhabitants — conquered the imagination of fans across Europe, overthrowing the Real Madrid-Barcelona duopoly to win La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
    Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The Heard and McDonald Islands have zero human inhabitants.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The van was carrying a tour group of 14 people, and the surviving occupants were taken to hospitals with injuries, police spokesman Aaron Snell said.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 May 2025
  • Two occupants of the Honda, later identified by police as Verne Zugenbuhler, 91, and Diane Zugenbuhler, 72, were pronounced dead at the scene.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Dweller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dweller. Accessed 14 May. 2025.

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