inhabit
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It was so grounded that it was easy to inhabit this character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
And intriguing developments—such as Christopher’s newfound magical ability to inhabit the minds of animals or the introduction of a villain finally worth rooting against—don’t yet cohere into a deeper meaning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Her unyielding respect for the world and all who inhabit it still has many lessons to teach.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
At this rainforest-like indoor farm, where creatures such as coral, tropical fish and sea cucumbers inhabit different aquariums, Kinjo bred "miracle coral" with extra resistance to warmer water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
“You know, there’s a place we all inhabit, but we don’t much think about it, we’re scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day.”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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One occurs mainly in China, while the other inhabits the Himalayan foothills across parts of Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Myanmar.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Seemiller argues that’s no longer the landscape Gen Z inhabits.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Whatever one’s interpretation of the relationships that she inhabits within the story, her influence was substantial,” Haig adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
It feels less carefully constructed than slowly formed - shaped long before the runways and fashion campaigns, in a life far removed from the one she inhabits now.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Often used or conjured by wizards for decoration, the fairy generally inhabits woodlands or glades.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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Mosasaurs were large marine reptiles that inhabited oceans around the world during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 98 to 66 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Jansen loves the elaborate Greek ferry system that connects most of the country’s inhabited islands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
At one point, residents say, the abandoned property was inhabited by the unhoused.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Jail Time Records studio is rudimentary - a small, sweaty recording booth attached to a room inhabited by a solitary computer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
And it had nothing to do with it already being inhabited by a very talkative hare.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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"He was inhabiting the music through his whole body."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Studies have even shown that inhabiting a character increases one’s ability to see from others’ perspectives.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
One posits the existence of billions of universes, arguing that happenstance alone accounts for the improbability of our inhabiting this one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Halliday: I physically was a different character when I was in the scenes in Toronto versus when I was in Gilead because I was inhabiting the space in a very different way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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