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We need to protect the forests and also the wildlife that inhabits them. The people who inhabit the island take great pride in their art.
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Recent Examples of inhabited
Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
That amount of fireworks is supposed to be stored about 75 yards away from any inhabited building, but Gerodemos stored the fireworks in a metal container just outside his store.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Time, 12 May 2026
Travis Heights The Academy, an 1889 shingle-style Victorian, was once a military school and inhabited by a Texas Supreme Court justice.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 11 May 2026
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Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is Britian’s most remote inhabited overseas territory.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
That amount of fireworks is supposed to be stored about 75 yards away from any inhabited building, but Gerodemos stored the fireworks in a metal container just outside his store.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
As a white male who inhabited a once homogeneous town, Harry feels marooned, marginalized by the social and racial turmoil of the late 1960s.
—Time, 12 May 2026
Travis Heights The Academy, an 1889 shingle-style Victorian, was once a military school and inhabited by a Texas Supreme Court justice.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabited
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The home is located on a quarter-acre of native and cultivated gardens and houses an art studio and yurt.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
2 Feb. 2023
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And the archive, Golia said, reflects Didion’s cultivated awareness of her self-presentation.—
Jennifer Schuessler,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2023
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At least 27 homes were so severely damaged that they could not be safely occupied along the coast, according to the California Coastal Commission.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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The drive-thru coffee house will take over the property previously occupied by TGI Fridays, which closed five years ago, said petitioner James Hus of the DVG Team.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Measles, largely gone for decades in the developed world, has come roaring back.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
11 May 2026
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Bloomberg adds that Italian health care costs a few thousand dollars per year, and living in the south offers distinct tax benefits, such as a 7% flat annual tax for foreign retirees who move to smaller towns in less developed areas.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Vasquez lived at a different address in Norwood.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2026
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Chachapoyas, Peru In the mountains of northern Peru sits Chachapoyas, a city named in honor of the civilization that lived here from 800 BCE to 1470.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
13 May 2026
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