inhabited

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One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

In 1971, he said that by “the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

I met him in a trendy bar in Kyiv, a world away from the six metre deep dug out he inhabited with his squad at the front line for more than 100 days.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Rapa Nui sits deep in this remote region, more than 3,000 kilometers from the coast of Chile and over 1,500 kilometers from the nearest inhabited island.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton