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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
Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The study employed a sophisticated statistical analysis to determine the minimum number of exoplanets that would need to be observed to generate useful answers about how many potentially inhabited planets are out there.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
At one point, it is revealed that the polluting, tree-felling Iron Town is inhabited by society’s outcasts, people who would not be able to survive in the uncompromising deathscape of the natural world.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Munoz was serving a 15-year sentence at the minimum-security fire camp for first-degree robbery of an inhabited dwelling, records show.
—Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The study employed a sophisticated statistical analysis to determine the minimum number of exoplanets that would need to be observed to generate useful answers about how many potentially inhabited planets are out there.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
This included tariffs on the uninhabited volcanic Heard and McDonald Islands, a remote territory inhabited only by penguins, seals, and seabirds.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
At one point, it is revealed that the polluting, tree-felling Iron Town is inhabited by society’s outcasts, people who would not be able to survive in the uncompromising deathscape of the natural world.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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No filmmaker was better-equipped to capture the institutional failures of our economic collapse in 2007-08, as Soderbergh has always been pre-occupied by the alienating relationship between our economic systems and his characters.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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The remainder of the hearing was occupied with timetables for jury selection, motions and disclosure of evidence.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 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
Adjective
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In developed countries, there are fewer third spaces where young men and women can interact.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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From the episode: Mitzi Rapkin: There are very developed dual time periods, maybe even triple periods in your story collection.—
A Dialogue,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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