occupy
Example Sentences
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The combined experimental and computational findings showed that sodium does more than simply occupy empty spaces inside the material.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Many of these had been on long enough to be considered institutions, and though hosts would come and go, they would typically occupy their chair for a good long time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
She refuses to be drawn when asked if her family occupy mansions in The Gambia, and how they were paid for.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Gonzalez Ittig believes the virus was always capable of such transmission, suggesting that humans may have begun to occupy a space where rodents already carried the disease.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
After the war, Hess returned to Princeton and the preoccupations of teaching, but the mysteries of the seafloor continued to occupy a space in his thoughts.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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