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
The internet is no longer just a network of information or communication platforms; it is gradually evolving into a landscape people emotionally navigate and fully inhabit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
The cerebral Cady that Bardem inhabits spent nearly two decades in prison convicted for his wife’s murder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
It feels less carefully constructed than slowly formed - shaped long before the runways and fashion campaigns, in a life far removed from the one she inhabits now.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
A dance gives nommo where bodies are not separate from the will that inhabits them.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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He insisted the targeted building was inhabited by "peaceful people with no connection to anyone".
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Indigenous people first inhabited the region around 30,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 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 species, which still exists, once inhabited the Southwestern region including Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
It looked like it hadn’t been inhabited in decades.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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“I get the yin and yang,” he says of the pleasure and challenge of inhabiting men from such different worlds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"He was inhabiting the music through his whole body."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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