dweller
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One of the earliest known primates was Teilhardina, a tiny tree dweller weighing just 28 grams – similar to the smallest primate alive today, Madame Berthae’s mouse lemur.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
I’m a city dweller and homeowner who needs a pickup for innumerable small jobs throughout the year—leaf litter in the fall, mulch in the spring, dorm-room moving four times a year—but no big ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The Canadian-born, two-time L.A. dweller and longtime resident of Berlin will turn 60 this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
I am also a city dweller who has thoroughly enjoyed not owning or maintaining a vehicle for the last decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026
I do not know this—a cave dweller would have had a fire by now, a Cro- Magnon man would have a fire by now—but I don’t know this.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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Retourne pointed to a growth in private car ownership as well as rapid urbanisation, with 200 million additional city dwellers over the past decade.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
From the beginning, Westlake/MacArthur served a number of apartment dwellers, but the apartments and the dwellers have changed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Few appreciate the luxury of space and the great outdoors like apartment dwellers with thin walls.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Sara was thrust into the national spotlight when, in defence of shanty town dwellers, she punched a Davao sheriff in full view of TV news cameras.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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