inhabit
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The internet is no longer just a network of information or communication platforms; it is gradually evolving into a landscape people emotionally navigate and fully inhabit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The most important thing is to ensure that once the mining has been conducted, the habitat can be returned to a state where the desert rain frog can inhabit it, he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Right, he eventually became exactly the adult who would inhabit that world.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
They consume different information, participate in different conversations and inhabit different realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Let us imagine we inhabit a strange country where everyone is perfectly flat.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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But having grown up in less-privileged circumstances, she’s uneasy in the world she now inhabits and bristles at the condescending manner of her mother-in-law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Whatever one’s interpretation of the relationships that she inhabits within the story, her influence was substantial,” Haig adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
This is one smart, encompassing album about the world this talented singer-songwriter inhabits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
That is why, in his eighth decade, McKechnie remains a master of the relentless world he inhabits.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
In the front of the room, Ellegua, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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There have been increasing complaints from farmers about damaged crops and residents over bear incursions into inhabited areas, sparking angry social media exchanges with those who defend the animals' protected status.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Like many Americans, she read “Little House in the Big Woods” when she was a child and immediately fell in love with Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls, her family, friends and the world they inhabited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Originally inhabited by Alaska Natives, the area was known as Nushagak by 1837, when a Russian Orthodox mission was established there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Cape Verde is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Ocean made up of 10 islands, of which nine are inhabited.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Just as Gaea inhabited the surface of the earth, Tartarus inhabited the pit.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The fossils indicate that the birds inhabiting New Zealand a million years ago were substantially different from those present when people eventually arrived.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Her comedy is dialectical, it rides on characters talking at cross purposes, inhabiting separate clashing realities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
When the nefarious Pilkington Industries repossesses Manor Farm after a failure to make payments, the animals inhabiting the stead are nearly trucked off to their demise.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
One posits the existence of billions of universes, arguing that happenstance alone accounts for the improbability of our inhabiting this one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Wherever there are great forests, modern methods of insect control threaten the fishes inhabiting the streams in the shelter of the trees.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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