inhabit
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While they may inhabit a different world than the rest of us in other respects, they live and die along with the rest of the investment world when it comes to investing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Seventeen other penguin species live across the Southern Hemisphere, and many inhabit isolated islands that are difficult for scientists to reach and study.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mallory decides she can inhabit the world of a down-and-out gay addict.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The campus green they inhabit is a febrile zone in which lofty ideals and cynicism regularly collide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The grand scheme didn’t last long because the pay was too little, but for P.J. this was a brief introduction to a world he would one day inhabit.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Victoria Newhouse’s classic book “Art and the Power of Placement” is all about how the impact of an artwork is affected by the space it inhabits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
One occurs mainly in China, while the other inhabits the Himalayan foothills across parts of Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Myanmar.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Seemiller argues that’s no longer the landscape Gen Z inhabits.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The spirit of old-school jazz, blues, big band and soul inhabits the record, which stretches out over 71 minutes, as Raye flexes her compositional muscles.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
She inhabits her world, waiting for forgiveness, while her children are planted in or upon the four different nations that have claimed us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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When they eventually arrive, they will have to navigate through a narrow gap created in the atoll's reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Continuously inhabited for the last quarter-century, the aging ISS is scheduled to be pushed out of Earth's orbit before crashing into one of Earth's oceans sometime around 2030.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
From 1948 to 1974, as gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens, Evans inhabited a neoclassical Eden where, locally celebrated, she made and sold her work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The work forms part of a broader investigation into the early history of modern reptile groups and the diversity of reptiles that inhabited Triassic seas.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
The cabin at the far end was inhabited by a man who lived on his own and who kept to himself.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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Studies have even shown that inhabiting a character increases one’s ability to see from others’ perspectives.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Dame Felicity's agent told the BBC that "in her work, she was sublime; inhabiting every performance with precision, depth and beauty".
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
One posits the existence of billions of universes, arguing that happenstance alone accounts for the improbability of our inhabiting this one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Halliday: I physically was a different character when I was in the scenes in Toronto versus when I was in Gilead because I was inhabiting the space in a very different way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Then, the foul thing inhabiting my stomach begins to dig its way out.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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