inhabitants

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Fires of such magnitude are rare on Santa Rosa so its inhabitants haven’t evolved with them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Like many of Walterboro’s roughly 5,400 inhabitants, she described Hill as a quintessential Southern belle—churchgoing, God-fearing and ready with a smile or an offer of sweet tea.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The new wardens of a tiny island with only a handful of human inhabitants say moving there full-time has been a "dream come true".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Reactive evacuation measures, for example, saved 96% of Japanese inhabitants when the major tsunami struck the Tōhoku coast on March 11 2011.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

We marched up athwart a hillock toward the house, Olakunde beating our step to better impress upon the inhabitants our seriousness of purpose.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson