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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
Now 30, Deutch fully inhabits the complicated Seberg during the tumultuous filming of Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary 1960 masterpiece.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Fans have been tearing the new Springfield Island map apart to unearth Easter eggs and hidden gags, including a full dissection of the notorious wonky house that the family inhabits.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
The genome of the female violet copper butterfly, which inhabits a huge swath of territory stretching from the Pyrenees to Siberia, consists of 25 pairs of chromosomes with a total of 547,306,268 base pairs.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Despite not finding the wreckage, the expedition captured invaluable underwater footage of marine life that inhabits the frigid depths of the Weddell Sea.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
The children aren’t sure yet what this will mean to them, and Durst inhabits that uncertainty alongside them.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The new species inhabits an incredibly small range, leaving it at risk of habitat changes despite living inside a nature reserve, according to the study.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Fans have been tearing the new Springfield Island map apart to unearth Easter eggs and hidden gags, including a full dissection of the notorious wonky house that the family inhabits.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
The genome of the female violet copper butterfly, which inhabits a huge swath of territory stretching from the Pyrenees to Siberia, consists of 25 pairs of chromosomes with a total of 547,306,268 base pairs.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Despite not finding the wreckage, the expedition captured invaluable underwater footage of marine life that inhabits the frigid depths of the Weddell Sea.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
The children aren’t sure yet what this will mean to them, and Durst inhabits that uncertainty alongside them.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The new species inhabits an incredibly small range, leaving it at risk of habitat changes despite living inside a nature reserve, according to the study.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabits
occupies
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Brands like Attersee and Sophie Bille Brahe have shops on an upper-level floor, while Adam Lippes’ uptown salon-style location occupies the main floor of a Georgian mansion on Fifth Avenue.—
Kathy Lee,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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How to get to Galveston Galveston occupies most of an island about two miles off mainland Texas.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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