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inhabit

[in-hab-it] / ɪnˈhæb ɪt /


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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

And intriguing developments—such as Christopher’s newfound magical ability to inhabit the minds of animals or the introduction of a villain finally worth rooting against—don’t yet cohere into a deeper meaning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

These shellfish inhabit the bottoms of bays and sounds and tidal rivers from New England to Texas and sheltered areas of the Pacific Coast.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

But having grown up in less-privileged circumstances, she’s uneasy in the world she now inhabits and bristles at the condescending manner of her mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

In the front of the room, Ellegua, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Last week, the Indonesian ombudsman's office said an inspection had uncovered a cluster of indulgently furnished apartments inhabited by inmates on the grounds of the Cibinong prison in Bogor, south of the capital.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Indigenous people first inhabited the region around 30,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Insidious” once seemed energized by its exploration of a land inhabited by the luckless dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

I see his fingers digging into the sand as he reassures himself that whatever nightmare he inhabited wasn’t real.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Exercises often pushed students into strange scenarios or premises: embodying an object, exploring a feeling or inhabiting a logic to find more instinctive, present performances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"He was inhabiting the music through his whole body."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Studies have even shown that inhabiting a character increases one’s ability to see from others’ perspectives.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The fossils indicate that the birds inhabiting New Zealand a million years ago were substantially different from those present when people eventually arrived.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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