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inhabit

verb as in take up residence in

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Miles’ case underscores a stark contradiction: people whose ancestors inhabited this land for millennia can still be treated as outsiders, illustrating how legal recognition and federal enforcement often fail to align in practice.

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These microbes inhabit rock and water systems far below the surface, where sunlight never reaches.

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But even with the school’s infrastructure behind him, the experience of playing the Playfair exists outside any practical career calculus; it marks an inflection point, a rare chance to inhabit history while shaping it.

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Their features clearly link them to a cardabiodontid, a group of giant predatory sharks that inhabited the oceans around 100 million years ago.

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Department of Building and Safety on Friday, meaning it passed inspection and is safe to inhabit.

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