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occupy

[ok-yuh-pahy] / ˈɒk yəˌpaɪ /




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It will occupy an 89-acre site within the park - 0.31% of its total area, according to a KWS official quoted by the Star newspaper.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The cable undeniably changed the world, but who pays attention to how the digits that increasingly occupy our time are conveyed around the globe?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The land they occupy would be 18 times bigger than New York City.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

He says he will eliminate street encampments, which occupy downtown’s Skid Row, as well as plenty of other hot spots in various neighborhoods.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Those abandoned flimsy barracks at Manzanar occupy my brain.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed




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