inhabit
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For Griffin, it illuminated the way Lynch came to inhabit the city he called home for more than half a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The novel introduces us to twin sisters who play, and come to deeply inhabit, the roles of a single girl’s body and soul during Victorian-era séances staged by their parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At this rainforest-like indoor farm, where creatures such as coral, tropical fish and sea cucumbers inhabit different aquariums, Kinjo bred "miracle coral" with extra resistance to warmer water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
They destroy the bacterial cells they inhabit while producing large numbers of new virus particles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
He has persuaded Dud not just to sympathize with, but actually to inhabit his position.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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
But having grown up in less-privileged circumstances, she’s uneasy in the world she now inhabits and bristles at the condescending manner of her mother-in-law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
That is why, in his eighth decade, McKechnie remains a master of the relentless world he inhabits.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
And let me now posit this: 'dignity7 has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Netflix’s “Below” joins the watery spectrum already inhabited by “Jaws,” “The Meg,” “47 Meters Down” and numerous other entries as it unveils its premise about a seaside town targeted by a mysterious monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Anderson's research focuses on one of the biggest transitions in biological history: how Earth changed from a planet dominated by bacteria into one inhabited by complex multicellular organisms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Jansen loves the elaborate Greek ferry system that connects most of the country’s inhabited islands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Jail Time Records studio is rudimentary - a small, sweaty recording booth attached to a room inhabited by a solitary computer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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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The brisk, absurdist tale sketches the duo’s difficulties in inhabiting their newly assumed roles and in the provisional nature of role-playing in general.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
When the nefarious Pilkington Industries repossesses Manor Farm after a failure to make payments, the animals inhabiting the stead are nearly trucked off to their demise.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Halliday: I physically was a different character when I was in the scenes in Toronto versus when I was in Gilead because I was inhabiting the space in a very different way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The Society called attention to the great variety of species of fish and other forms of life inhabiting the southeastern part of the United States, including species that occur nowhere else in the world.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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