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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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About 30 or so customers occupied the wooden stools of the old-school, salty hangout in an industrial strip a few miles from downtown Louisville.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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These actions helped lay the groundwork for the later establishment of the role of White House Press Secretary, a position first occupied by journalist George Akerson, whom Herbert Hoover had originally hired as his secretary.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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The main challenges include aligning climate finance commitments between developed and developing countries, addressing the socio-economic impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations and ensuring that emission reduction targets are consistent with the latest climate science.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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For the most part, these blueprints have been geared at spurring growth and unity as the nation transformed from a rural, agrarian economy to an urbanized, developed powerhouse.—
Shaoyu Yuan,
The Conversation,
5 Nov. 2025
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One of those neighbors was Lat Williams, who has lived full-time on the same stretch of beach as Morgan and Dodick for decades.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Billionaire Hushang Ansary has lived his life at the junction of money and power.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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