habitation
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You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Each site represents a different stage in the long sequence of habitation across this region.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
"This was a literate, urban society where people had separate spaces for habitation, burial practices and industrial work," Mr Kumar says, noting it's the first large, well-defined ancient urban settlement found in southern India.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025
“The habitation of these people on the island,” one Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist wrote in a 1957 report, “will afford the most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
It was a house that needed painting, one that seemed to cry out for habitation and laughter beneath its roof.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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