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inhabit

[in-hab-it] / ɪnˈhæb ɪt /


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Billy, now inhabiting the body of and living as William, was then able to use his powers to help Tommy’s soul find a new body to inhabit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The gut microbiome consists of the enormous community of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit the digestive system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Watching “That Thing You Do!” climbing the charts throughout the movie is a peek into an alien musical world, one that was both more regional and more monocultural than the one we inhabit today.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

And because of the special features necessary for our form of life, that’s the universe we inhabit.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He simply inhabits each character as if it’s a run-down rent-controlled apartment he’s been living in forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

That is why, in his eighth decade, McKechnie remains a master of the relentless world he inhabits.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

The place of the fiddler crab in the ecology of the world it inhabits is a necessary one, not easily filled.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The land the tribe inhabited before being evicted is now divided among ranchers, government agencies and a conservation nonprofit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Evidence from the fossil deposits indicates that some of these snakes inhabited tidal environments, while others occupied swamps and marshes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

On Tuesday, the crew plans to navigate through a narrow gap "blasted" in the atoll's reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited - to prepare for landing.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

This remembered world was somehow more vivid than the physical world I inhabited, and I phased between them.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

One posits the existence of billions of universes, arguing that happenstance alone accounts for the improbability of our inhabiting this one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The man who left Scotland with just enough cash to place a wild bet on himself still appreciates the pay-offs from inhabiting this high-pressure world where his healing hands can provide a critical assist.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

I couldn’t travel with an alien organism inhabiting my face.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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