inhabit
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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
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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
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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
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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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