occupy
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The artwork will reportedly occupy a train of its own, emptied of everyone except conservators and guards, and a police escort will be provided on both sides of the Channel.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But some of the meals we remember most vividly occupy stranger territory.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Before-and-after satellite footage of Guaira reveal a stunning spectacle: Piles of rubble now occupy scores of sites that once housed high-rise buildings, shops, homes and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Leopards in the Cape Floristic Region occupy a landscape unlike any other in southern Africa, shaped by low prey availability, unique vegetation, and rapidly expanding human populations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
To occupy my mind I spent my spare moments figuring out the best way to do it.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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Mr. Morgan, whose inspiration seems clear enough—Robert De Niro’s Johnny Boy—is terrific as the half-crazy, wildly impulsive Mickey, whose abduction by the Italians occupies much of the early going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But, according to Benson, one of the property’s most alluring features is the incredible privacy that it offers thanks to the sprawling 25-acre parcel that it occupies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
It can identify locations within approximately 20 meters and can even estimate elevation, revealing which floor of a building someone occupies.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Stanford occupies a unique position in the American tech ecosystem.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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All 27 units at the market are currently occupied, but walking around the market on a weekday mid-morning during the summer holidays you probably would not think that.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Critics argue that prime government land in the middle of India’s most expensive cities should not be occupied by exclusive clubs that enjoy heavily subsidized leases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Bulky server racks and wafer-thin semiconductors needed for the AI build-out are taking up space in cargo planes once occupied by packages of low-price apparel and knickknacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Sharaa denied any intention to intervene militarily in Lebanon, which Syria had occupied for decades under the Assads.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
War has changed me – even more than living as a Jew in a Nazi- occupied country changed me before all of this.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and the former executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter, sees Tilly occupying an uncomfortable middle ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"They were occupying the same streets that a year earlier were completely, completely and utterly dead," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Migratory birds use the area during different seasons, with wintering species spending the colder months there and breeding species occupying the region during summer.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
The tennis grass-court season zips by faster than a pro’s serve, occupying only a few weeks in June after the Roland Garros grand slam in Paris and culminating at Wimbledon’s Centre Court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Here were two successive experiments in human development, in which the environment was identical and the sole variable was the people occupying that environment.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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