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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
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The head of the Jab’a village council, Diab Masha’leh, told Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, on Monday that the settlers attacked the village and set fire to three inhabited homes and three vehicles.
—Dana Karni, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Once a coconut plantation, Desroches is now entirely inhabited by conservationists, marine biologists, and the Four Seasons, which gives it a private island feeling.
—Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The head of the Jab’a village council, Diab Masha’leh, told Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, on Monday that the settlers attacked the village and set fire to three inhabited homes and three vehicles.
—Dana Karni, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Verb
The land, originally inhabited by the Tataviam people, became part of an 1843 land grant to Francisco López and José Arellanes from the Mexican government of California, the listing said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Once a coconut plantation, Desroches is now entirely inhabited by conservationists, marine biologists, and the Four Seasons, which gives it a private island feeling.
—Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2025
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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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The location also meant that whoever occupied Carthage could control the comings and goings across the Mediterranean’s central zone.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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Upon its release, seven of the songs from the album occupied top 10 spots on the Tunefind Top Movie Songs chart.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Autoliv and Tensor say their co-developed system is intended to remove those constraints without compromising safety.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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And with the nation boasting the highest government debt-to-GDP ratio in the developed world by a wide margin, bearishness to JGBs is likely to persist.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
29 Dec. 2025
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Courtesy of Gene Yu At age 46, startup founder Gene Yu seems to have lived several lives in one.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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Investigators said the man, who lived at the home, had already helped his mother escape before re-entering the burning house in an attempt to rescue the family dog.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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