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inhabit

[in-hab-it] / ɪnˈhæb ɪt /


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Some horse stables inhabit valuable land on Manhattan’s west side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

One area of particular interest is the gut microbiome, the enormous collection of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit the digestive tract.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The shortfin mako shark is known to inhabit the ocean waters off Malibu, and was once a target of commercial fishing in California, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

If it was like his, the pain she was feeling was so deep that it seemed to inhabit every atom of her.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Victoria Newhouse’s classic book “Art and the Power of Placement” is all about how the impact of an artwork is affected by the space it inhabits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

Their Paradise Cove condo is not unlike the home one of the main characters inhabits 30 years later in the book’s second half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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

Continuously inhabited for the last quarter-century, the aging ISS is scheduled to be pushed out of Earth's orbit before crashing into one of Earth's oceans sometime around 2030.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

From 1948 to 1974, as gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens, Evans inhabited a neoclassical Eden where, locally celebrated, she made and sold her work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The work forms part of a broader investigation into the early history of modern reptile groups and the diversity of reptiles that inhabited Triassic seas.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

We entered what appeared to be an inhabited area, and the truck pulled over in front of a wooden building.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

As a child in North London, growing up with a Jamaican-Guyanese mother and an English father, she was drawn to performance in part because she was freed from her introversion when inhabiting a role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Dame Felicity's agent told the BBC that "in her work, she was sublime; inhabiting every performance with precision, depth and beauty".

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

What I am paid to do is to observe him in a rigorous present tense, as a subject dynamically inhabiting a scene, as a phenomenon of study.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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