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
  • Today, roughly 22% of land in cities with over 1 million inhabitants is used for parking.
    George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The tornado wreaked havoc in the village of 1,000 inhabitants, reducing homes to rubble and destroying numerous cars.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Black residents would represent 41% of the Central zone's population, and white residents would represent 49%.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
  • During his own censure item, Saunders apologized to his fellow city council members, city residents, county residents, and Kennell for his comments last month.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The Brigands of Rattlecreek follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Both occupants of the Volkswagen, women aged 43 and 48, were also taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Habitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitant. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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