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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 inhabits
Each sound inhabits its own space, hardly touching the others.
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
That tonal shift is mirrored not only in the storytelling, but in the places the series now inhabits.
—Chloe Laws, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2026
As a 2015 study from Herpetological Monographs explains, the crab-eating frog inhabits environments that swing dramatically between freshwater and full seawater with tides and rainfall.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Zambia While most safaris are about watching wildlife, Time + Tide Chongwe Camp can coordinate a quest to catch (and release) one of Africa’s aquatic apex predators, the tiger fish, which inhabits the Zambezi River.
—Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
And that seemingly uninterrupted one-take is its own argument for the necessity of the medium to transport and astound us out of a banal world, one as banal as the one the Deliriant inhabits as civilization comes to its last gasp.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
Star Wagner Moura inhabits this duality in his Cannes best actor-winning performance, which is at once tender, fierce and yearning, but also mysterious and guarded.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2025
The radiant amber light in which Meto is bathed during scenes of her exploits a few years prior becomes a stark contrast to the cool blue world that Nima inhabits in the present.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
First with Jeff’s Table, a popular Eastside sandwich spot, and then at OyBar in Studio City, which inhabits the former Oyster House Saloon.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
That tonal shift is mirrored not only in the storytelling, but in the places the series now inhabits.
—Chloe Laws, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2026
As a 2015 study from Herpetological Monographs explains, the crab-eating frog inhabits environments that swing dramatically between freshwater and full seawater with tides and rainfall.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Zambia While most safaris are about watching wildlife, Time + Tide Chongwe Camp can coordinate a quest to catch (and release) one of Africa’s aquatic apex predators, the tiger fish, which inhabits the Zambezi River.
—Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
And that seemingly uninterrupted one-take is its own argument for the necessity of the medium to transport and astound us out of a banal world, one as banal as the one the Deliriant inhabits as civilization comes to its last gasp.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
Star Wagner Moura inhabits this duality in his Cannes best actor-winning performance, which is at once tender, fierce and yearning, but also mysterious and guarded.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2025
The radiant amber light in which Meto is bathed during scenes of her exploits a few years prior becomes a stark contrast to the cool blue world that Nima inhabits in the present.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
First with Jeff’s Table, a popular Eastside sandwich spot, and then at OyBar in Studio City, which inhabits the former Oyster House Saloon.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabits
occupies
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Its much smaller, more casual sister restaurant, Dreamboat, occupies the same building and is a retro vegan diner.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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The property occupies a sizable 6,000-square-foot lot.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
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