squatted
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Others squatted on balcony steps or leaned against walls for the roughly 90-minute service.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Instead of of keeping his distance from the pile, he squatted, reached out and lit it.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
Two accounts on Instagram called the Camden Art Cafe and Autonomous Winter Shelter have posted about a "new squatted community space" at the York & Albany hotel.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2024
Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024
The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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