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inhabit

verb as in take up residence in

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To this point, it has managed to survive by inhabiting artificial waterways like irrigation, canals and rice fields, where it became a familiar sight for local farmers, according to the U.S.

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The same might also be said for Evelyn himself, whom we observe with distaste even as we inhabit his thoughts.

My daughter’s superpower has always been the ability to pull sunshine into whatever space she inhabits.

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She wrote, “I was completely inhabiting my body. It was an entirely unfamiliar freedom, bodily freedom, rapture.”

For many Americans, the fact is that we inhabit a demon-haunted world, where fundamentalism and anti-rational beliefs offer not just answers, but also a sense of safety and salvation.

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