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It may reflect the variety of habitats these fish occupy, from fast streams to still lakes.

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He claimed the Israeli side had been "directly involved in Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza", because the club was involved in Israel's infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.

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Satellite images show that Vietnam has created new land on all 21 rocks and so-called low-tide elevations—reefs that were previously submerged at high tide—that it occupies in the Spratlys.

This astrological belief holds that the ringed planet’s return to the position it occupied at a person’s birth marks the dividing line between youth and true adulthood.

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Objects, buildings, people, cities, planets, galaxies exist -- they are either places or occupy places, enduring there over intervals of time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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