occupied

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This is especially true of a highly-respected organization such as Gallup, which has, for almost nine decades, occupied an outsized role in American political life.

From Salon

He moved his operation way out to Burbank, to land now occupied by Warner Bros. studios.

From Los Angeles Times

To keep herself occupied, Lyudmila volunteers for an organisation sewing camouflage gear for soldiers.

From Barron's

There’s a marching band of two performing in the living room, but they’re far too occupied by their noisemakers to play with us.

From Literature

They noticed that so-called "tangled" events, when more than one section of DNA occupied the pore at the same time, occurred far more often than knot theory could explain.

From Science Daily