habitation
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Many houses have the neglected look of infrequent habitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
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
“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
I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it wound far and farther: no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
But what those habitations looked like—or whether they were occupied year-round—remains unclear.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 14, 2023
Mr Kenoyer says he's confident that "there must be some settlements that relate to the cemetery, but they are probably lying beneath modern habitations or so far undiscovered".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
Media showed images of the river lashing through the hills and entering human habitations.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2023
It hails L.A. as “one of the most flourishing habitations of man, which has been so highly favored and blessed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
It was nothing special as Sparra habitations went: a straw palliasse, some butterfly wings stuck to the wall by way of decoration.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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