occupied

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These would not be allowed within a 100-metre "buffer" of a building not occupied by the site owner.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Early humans occupied the site during the Middle Pleistocene, a period spanning roughly 774,000 to 129,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Most of those killed and missing were young women born between 2003 and 2008, according to a list of casualties published by the Moscow-backed governor of occupied Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

A Black president occupied the Oval Office; Twitter had proven essential to pro-democracy movements in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The largest chair was occupied by a man in his fifties with dark brown skin, a scholar’s gown, and a formidable look of power.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell