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
  • The Engadin Valley is part of the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden with about 25,000 inhabitants and the highest mountains are in the Bernina Range.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of ignoring the noise and letting the backlash blow over, Espinal showed up to the set and posted a video explaining to New Yorkers why, in the long term, productions like this are a boon to the city and its inhabitants.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Hawaii residents are still recovering from Hurricane Lala, which produced heavy rain and winds strong enough to sweep about 100 homes off their foundations on the Big Island.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
  • With California’s coast getting pounded by strong waves amid a strengthening El Niño, residents and government leaders are turning to big rocks and seawalls to protect homes and keep a railroad from falling into the sea.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Upon arrival, officers met with the occupants of the home who directed them to the teen who had suffered a traumatic injury.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Experts say that creates a dangerous precedent for future occupants of the White House.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Habitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitant. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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