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[in-hab-it] / ɪnˈhæb ɪt /


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All eight pieces inhabit a sound world born of the duo’s unusual approach to the piano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Argyrins were originally discovered in myxobacteria, microorganisms that inhabit soil.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Watching “That Thing You Do!” climbing the charts throughout the movie is a peek into an alien musical world, one that was both more regional and more monocultural than the one we inhabit today.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

While they may inhabit a different world than the rest of us in other respects, they live and die along with the rest of the investment world when it comes to investing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

But the technology that allowed us to explore and inhabit the most remote regions of the Earth now permits us to leave our planet, to venture into space, to explore other worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Victoria Newhouse’s classic book “Art and the Power of Placement” is all about how the impact of an artwork is affected by the space it inhabits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

One occurs mainly in China, while the other inhabits the Himalayan foothills across parts of Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Myanmar.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

But Seemiller argues that’s no longer the landscape Gen Z inhabits.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

It feels less carefully constructed than slowly formed - shaped long before the runways and fashion campaigns, in a life far removed from the one she inhabits now.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

The frugal Mrs. Platt, if she still inhabits her sallow rooms, will not be displeased.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In these remote areas inhabited chiefly by Indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Guard is the first line of defense for communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The land the tribe inhabited before being evicted is now divided among ranchers, government agencies and a conservation nonprofit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

To get into the atoll's lagoon, a boat has to navigate through a narrow gap created in the reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

From 1948 to 1974, as gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens, Evans inhabited a neoclassical Eden where, locally celebrated, she made and sold her work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Whether they had been born free or in chains, they inhabited that moment as one: the moment when you aim yourself at the north star and decide to run.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The brisk, absurdist tale sketches the duo’s difficulties in inhabiting their newly assumed roles and in the provisional nature of role-playing in general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Many of the news stories highlighted the threat to the unique plants and animals inhabiting the island off the coast of Santa Barbara, from plucky, pint-sized foxes to the rarest pine trees in North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

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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