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Recent Examples of inhabitant According to Reuters, the territory is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but the inhabitants in Nagorno-Karabakh were predominantly ethnic Armenians. Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Keeping a zoo clean and livable for its animal inhabitants guzzles a lot of power. Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2025 For a disaster so vast and so unfathomable, some sort of grounding feels necessary, some little point to hold on to, some faces to remember, but even the actual story of the bus and its temporary inhabitants feels a touch too small for the grand scale Greengrass is working on here. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025 But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day. Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhabitant
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Noun
  • At least 900 tourists were stranded near the Inca citadel on Tuesday after the train service PeruRail was suspended on Monday because the route was blocked amid protests between local residents and authorities, Reuters reported.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And city residents will pay $5 a day to park in lots a farther out.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One of the trucks caught fire and the driver, who was the sole occupant of the burning truck, died at scene, police said.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The explosion blew open the front gate of the building and collided with a passing car, injuring its occupants.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Inhabitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhabitant. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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