occupy

Example Sentences

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The FBI had a unit tasked with finding traitors in occupied Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal

I assumed I would be safe, occupying an aisle seat in the murderously expensive prime orchestra during a press performance attended by critics.

From Los Angeles Times

Russia's 2022 invasion -- which saw his home town in the southern Zaporizhzhia region occupied -- has only cemented his faith in technology.

From Barron's

Witnesses say the drones hit Lake Kivu and a two-storey residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in the rebel-held city early on Wednesday morning.

From BBC

The theory explained why electrons inside atoms occupy only certain allowed energy levels, a phenomenon known as quantization.

From Science Daily