habitant

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Recent Examples of habitant Efforts to mitigate the risks include habitant management, detecting and predicting wildlife moments, and keeping the animals away. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 Accordingly, the First Continental Congress wrote to Quebec’s habitants – residents of French origin – to invite them to join their new nationalist project. Sarah M.s. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 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 Unlike conventional designs, Cabin of Maze is designed to disorient, challenge, and surprise its habitants though its meandering corridors and passageways. New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025 Many of Murphy’s encounters have the eerie magic of habitants of two planets getting to know one another. David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2024 Hippo Cove holds up to four hippos, so if one of the females gets pregnant and has a baby, then a current habitant will have to go. The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024 In many cases this summer, habitants of homeless encampments are having to pick up their belongings and find a new place to pitch their tent. Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitant
Noun
  • Shakhtar Donetsk Watching Champions League evenings unfold at Stamford Bridge without its usual inhabitants, Chelsea, will take some getting used to.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Some religious scholars in Saudi Arabia have preached against developing the area, claiming that its former inhabitants were struck down by the wrath of God.
    Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The separatists set fire to a number of vehicles, said residents Khaled Saleh and Hamoud Nasser.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Among the residents dealing with the difficult situation in recent weeks have been the players, coaches and staff at Ceuta, who finished 11th in Spain’s second division last season.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Five people were killed, all occupants of a van owned by a contract cleaning company for airlines and another vehicle, authorities previously said.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, an occupant of the van, and Eugenio Corredor, 79, who was in the other vehicle, were in critical condition, the sheriff’s office said.
    Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Habitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitant. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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