inhabited

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There’s not a moment in the play that isn’t deeply inhabited by a cast that understands the value of listening.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

In 1971, he said that by “the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The settlement is largely inhabited by washermen and their families, many of whom live and work there.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Over it all rise the grim, red, elaborate walls of the Royal House, which though in perpetual use is inhabited by no one beside the king himself.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin