as in occupies
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
The Town of Campbell, outside of La Crosse, also discovered widespread PFAS contamination of private wells, likely stemming from the use of firefighting foam at the La Crosse Regional Airport, which inhabits a portion of the small island in between the Black and Mississippi Rivers.
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Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
The team that inhabits it is often called inevitable — immune to pressure and impossible to put away.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
More details on what a Bumpy Snailfish is The Bumpy Snailfish is a snailfish species that inhabits the deep sea near the coast of California.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
The festival inhabits empty buildings in Riga, exploring their potential and possible development strategies that could be used to regenerate them.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The pomegranate contains all the commandments of God in its seeds; the divine inhabits it.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Everyone needs a chance to loosen up and have some fun, and even though this is also quite dark in places, definitely violent, this one is end-of-summer relief from the real world Aronofsky often inhabits.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
There is nothing the world loves to put on a pedestal more than a beautiful white mother who inhabits the cross section of feminine beauty and maternal warmth, and who demonstrates ease at inhabiting all the roles society asks her to fill.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Her brand, founded in 2020, inhabits a unique space in womenswear—between intergenerational handcraft and textile innovation.
—Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
The team that inhabits it is often called inevitable — immune to pressure and impossible to put away.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
More details on what a Bumpy Snailfish is The Bumpy Snailfish is a snailfish species that inhabits the deep sea near the coast of California.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
The festival inhabits empty buildings in Riga, exploring their potential and possible development strategies that could be used to regenerate them.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The pomegranate contains all the commandments of God in its seeds; the divine inhabits it.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Everyone needs a chance to loosen up and have some fun, and even though this is also quite dark in places, definitely violent, this one is end-of-summer relief from the real world Aronofsky often inhabits.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
There is nothing the world loves to put on a pedestal more than a beautiful white mother who inhabits the cross section of feminine beauty and maternal warmth, and who demonstrates ease at inhabiting all the roles society asks her to fill.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Her brand, founded in 2020, inhabits a unique space in womenswear—between intergenerational handcraft and textile innovation.
—Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabits
occupies
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But governance could be eventually handed over to the Palestinian Authority, which already oversees parts of the West Bank, another Palestinian territory which Israel occupies, provided the Palestinian Authority adopts a broad series of reforms.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
30 Sep. 2025
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Still, despite the change around him, Lafrenière occupies a fundamentally similar space on the Rangers’ roster; there simply aren’t many players in the mix who have his ceiling.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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