as in occupying
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 inhabiting
The music video is a single shot of Welch in the back of a car, singing along in a suit, sporting shades and a cigar, both mocking and inhabiting the position of male dominance.
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
On Tuesday night the onstage performer inhabiting the creature created by Tahra Zafar was Arti Shah, and it was voiced by James Hameed.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The melancholy truth is that things have sunk into a morass of demoralization and low standards, with journalism inhabiting the poverty sector among the disciplines, and this at a time when communications nationally and internationally have reached an apex of urgency and complexity.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But inhabiting this patchwork outcast has sparked a creative resurgence (and rave reviews) for the 28-year-old Australian star, plus some real Oscar buzz.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Just like wolves, bison, pronghorns, prairie dogs, beavers, and monarch butterflies, these bears are on the list of epic species inhabiting North America — which means that any immigration- and tariff-related threats and decisions made by the region’s countries invariably affect them as well.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
And the challenge of inhabiting such a dark, gruesome world in a weird roundabout way brought a lot of joy and levity to the set.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
In this scheme, free will was feeble, and sin could be blamed on dark forces inhabiting the body.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
His 2023 film Hitman toyed with the thrill of inhabiting multiple identities; Chad Powers expands a real-life stunt into a meditation on failure, accountability, and the cost of reinvention.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
Grace Byron, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
On Tuesday night the onstage performer inhabiting the creature created by Tahra Zafar was Arti Shah, and it was voiced by James Hameed.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The melancholy truth is that things have sunk into a morass of demoralization and low standards, with journalism inhabiting the poverty sector among the disciplines, and this at a time when communications nationally and internationally have reached an apex of urgency and complexity.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But inhabiting this patchwork outcast has sparked a creative resurgence (and rave reviews) for the 28-year-old Australian star, plus some real Oscar buzz.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Just like wolves, bison, pronghorns, prairie dogs, beavers, and monarch butterflies, these bears are on the list of epic species inhabiting North America — which means that any immigration- and tariff-related threats and decisions made by the region’s countries invariably affect them as well.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
And the challenge of inhabiting such a dark, gruesome world in a weird roundabout way brought a lot of joy and levity to the set.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
In this scheme, free will was feeble, and sin could be blamed on dark forces inhabiting the body.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
His 2023 film Hitman toyed with the thrill of inhabiting multiple identities; Chad Powers expands a real-life stunt into a meditation on failure, accountability, and the cost of reinvention.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabiting
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Ditto the echoes of The Civil War, also examining a battle that pit brother against brother, and The Vietnam War, in which America became the occupying imperial force failing to understand or successfully combat a domestic insurgence.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Currently, there are no other films occupying that date.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The concept could pave the way for new kinds of adaptive, energy-efficient machines that move more like living organisms.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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Seeing how powerful poetry could be Paniagua Guzman, the poetry project’s principal investigator, started thinking about ways poetry could help those living with dementia after visiting his grandmother in Mexico City in 2019.—
Holly J. McDede,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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