dweller
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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
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 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 am also a city dweller who has thoroughly enjoyed not owning or maintaining a vehicle for the last decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026
One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Housing affordability has become a growing issue across the 27-nation bloc in recent years, with 51 percent of European city dwellers telling a 2025 survey it was "an immediate and urgent problem".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The same report notes that the DSA member base has become younger and more white-collar, with its greatest appeal to college-educated urban dwellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And yet, most city dwellers would rather bloom where they’re planted.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
But when the film takes the perspective of a human looking at the forest dwellers, their eyes appear small and dark, almost nondescript.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
In the spring of 2010, as food shortages again became severe, the government launched a massive back-to-the-farm campaign to persuade city dwellers to move to the countryside and raise crops.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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