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occupy

[ok-yuh-pahy] / ˈɒk jəˌpaɪ /




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As the director Barrie Kosky observed in an interview earlier this year, the famous spectacles occupy perhaps 20 minutes of roughly 16 hours of music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It will be the fight of a generation, and it’s going to occupy your every day from now until a long time from now.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

"In Gazipur protesters tried to occupy the highway."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero became the first Latina to occupy that role when Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed her in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

I try to occupy the hall with my voice, but I can't fill my belly with enough breath.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

“SCTV” occupies a sacred place in the hearts of its fans, with their warped sense of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

But EU integration occupies a strikingly minor place in the students' election manifesto, which describes the bloc merely as Serbia's "most important economic partner".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Orbiting the star is a brown dwarf, an object that occupies the murky boundary between planets and stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Those words capture a central tension in the sprawling show, which occupies interconnected galleries at the far end of the museum’s Resnick Pavilion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It occupies so much space in her house she must step carefully around it in the dark.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Last year, by contrast, Russia could move supplies along the highways of occupied eastern Ukraine to within about 20 miles of the front line, with little fear that vehicles would be hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Another human lineage, Homo luzonensis, occupied the Philippines.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

It said the plan to have one part of the new building occupied by March 2027 and the neonatal unit handed over by November 2027 depended on the success of the repair programme.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

It hasn’t been easy work; Pinkleton credits several people for their contributions, particularly the tour’s associate director Sunny Min-Sook Hitt, who occupied the same role during the original production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

But the nations of Europe that were occupied by the Germans were still fully under their military control.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

And so, that actually is what’s been occupying me in large part for the last 10+ years in my research.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

This suggests that the giant predator was part of a broader community of snakes occupying different ecological roles, rather than an isolated evolutionary oddity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

If there’s resistance to giving Christopher Nolan back-to-back best picture winners, the greatest threat might come from a movie occupying the same lane, an auteur-driven epic lauded by critics and embraced by audiences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Currently occupying a repurposed warehouse near the farmers market, the museum is set to move to a new site with twice the gallery space in 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

After a week of classes, practice, Mom’s endless phone calls to other parents, and paranoia occupying my every stray thought, Friday arrived.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan


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