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to be in a place for a period of time
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
Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Aug. 2025
About 2,300 firefighters have been contending with rugged terrain in the sparsely inhabited area.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
In Ovid’s version of the story, after cutting down a sacred oak, Erysichthon is cursed with insatiable hunger by the dryad nymph who inhabited it.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
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In the search for life in the Universe, the ultimate goal is to find an inhabited planet beyond Earth.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Aug. 2025
About 2,300 firefighters have been contending with rugged terrain in the sparsely inhabited area.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The Aeneid has a special relevance for the United States, a country founded by immigrants who fled from earlier homelands, often believing that divine providence justified their claim on a land already inhabited by many distinct groups of indigenous peoples.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
In Ovid’s version of the story, after cutting down a sacred oak, Erysichthon is cursed with insatiable hunger by the dryad nymph who inhabited it.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
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Inevitably, different players have different routines, different responsibilities, different ways of keeping themselves occupied.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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His teammates marvel at it, their explanation for how a soon-to-be 36-year-old is still playing a game occupied primarily by athletes in their early 20s.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Since Missouri moved from the Big 12 to the SEC on July 1, 2012, the program has lived quite a second life in the South.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Becoming a saint In the Catholic faith, sainthood is reserved for those who have lived a life of heroic virtues, offered their life for others or died for their faith, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.—
Lauren Costantino
September 6,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In the world's least developed countries, every two seconds a baby is born into unwashed hands due to a lack of water.—
Kelly Parsons,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The National Park Service did not change its confine and contain strategy to reflect the worsening conditions and maintained that there was still no threat to public safety or developed areas.—
Stephanie Murray,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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