dweller
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As a New York City apartment dweller, Genna Contino has plenty of experience finding a place to live.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
As imagined by director Travis Knight—best known for another toys-to-screen saga, 2018’s “Transformers” sequel “Bumblebee”—and a battalion of screenwriters, the new He-Man, lost prince from the planet Eternia, is a meek cubicle dweller named Adam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
I had been a serial apartment dweller with limited outdoor space, so I never knew the color of my thumbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
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
Fen Cottage at Wicken Fen, in Cambridgeshire, was built in roughly 1700 and is one of the last surviving homes of the ancient fen dwellers.
From BBC ● May 13, 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
And yet, most city dwellers would rather bloom where they’re planted.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Nearly one-quarter of America’s city dwellers live in poverty.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
