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occupies

verb as in seize, take over

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At a time of great uncertainty, I’m finding it especially cathartic—while I sorely miss seeing my friends and family from around the globe, at least we occupy the same planet.

For that, the country needs utility-scale solar farms, which can take up a lot of space—they could occupy an area the size of Connecticut by 2030, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Doctors, especially, who didn’t have a bird’s-eye view of the hospital’s statistics, were far more occupied with the emergencies they were dealing with day to day, like broken bones and severe mental illness.

If there’s an article on a particular topic from a publisher and that publisher also has a richer story panel, the latter would be shown rather than the individual story link — but in the same position the publisher would otherwise occupy.

In an insulating material, meanwhile, the highest-energy band occupied by electrons is entirely filled, so there are no “spaces” for these electrons to move into.

William Henry Cosby occupies a permanent place in the American pantheon.

Garfield the cat occupies an understated and often overlooked position critical to the history of televised animation.

At a time when few are disposed to see history as a branch of literature, Lepore occupies a prominent place in American letters.

This diagnosis occupies a uniquely dark and uncomfortable corner of medicine.

Between a secular moralist and an ideologue, there is a softer, more human middle that Soyinka occupies.

The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.

It was hard to hear you ridiculing an affair that occupies my serious thoughts.

Well over 70 now, healthy and p. 93energetic still, he occupies the position he did then.

It occupies a commanding position on a knoll and is surrounded by a group of fine trees.

In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to occupies, such as: employ, involve, take up, attend, fill, and busy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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