inhabited

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In the 1890s, long-simmering dreams of an inhabited Mars found a foothold in the U.S., fanned by wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell, who built an Arizona observatory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

There’s not a line or a silence of Anatoly’s that doesn’t feel fully inhabited.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

"This tells us that by the mid-Cambrian, when evolutionary rates were remarkably high, the oceans were already inhabited by arthropods with anatomical complexity rivaling modern forms," Ortega-Hernández added.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 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