Thesaurus results for INHABITING

inhabiting

verb

present participle of inhabit

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 translator is keenly aware of inhabiting this space. —

Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026 Puppets create a liminal space between the quotidian and the fantastic, while inhabiting the same, actual three-dimensional space as the rest of us. —

Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026 Characters are constantly zipping through the two-story rotating set, from classroom to kitchen to banquet hall, inhabiting their stories in alternating snippets. —

Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026 That cross-continental team pooled expertise to confirm the frog as a distinct species — one that had been quietly inhabiting its mountainous ecosystem, unrecognized by science until now. —

Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026 While the Oscars have been held downtown before, previously inhabiting the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Shrine Auditorium, the Dolby Theatre has been synonymous with the event for the past two decades. —

Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 26 Mar. 2026 By inhabiting the same aesthetic ideals that the poètes maudits did, which were both inspirational for and infused within the punk movement, Hell manages to gesture at the sense of transcendence which fuelled his nineteenth-century forebears. —

Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026 In these stretches, Willow sounds less concerned with proving her musicianship than actually inhabiting it. —

Precious Fondren, Pitchfork, 24 Feb. 2026 Sadly, the full ring of fire will only be witnessed by the few human beings inhabiting research stations in the path of annularity, along with the millions of penguins who call the frozen continent home. —

Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026

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Only when measured does a particle behave like a particle, occupying a specific point in space.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Beyond the immediate energy supply crunch, this is a central question occupying government officials and investors gathering in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 13 Apr. 2026