as in to occupy
to be in a place for a period of time
We need to protect the forests and also the wildlife that inhabits them. The people who inhabit the island take great pride in their art.
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Recent Examples of inhabit
Neolithic populations inhabited this southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula around 5300 to 4900 BCE.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
As the stage is inhabited by an enormous CLOSE-UP of a haunted and exquisitely beautiful WOMAN in her early 50s.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
And taking photos with Danny and trying to inhabit how Gilda would inhabit a photograph was really instrumental in my prep.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2024
Powell inhabits a handful of tough guys and embodies a few more idiosyncratic tropes—a long-haired Russian, a Patrick Bateman power-suit type, and a character seemingly inspired by Tilda Swinton—to convince his marks.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
As the stage is inhabited by an enormous CLOSE-UP of a haunted and exquisitely beautiful WOMAN in her early 50s.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
And taking photos with Danny and trying to inhabit how Gilda would inhabit a photograph was really instrumental in my prep.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2024
Powell inhabits a handful of tough guys and embodies a few more idiosyncratic tropes—a long-haired Russian, a Patrick Bateman power-suit type, and a character seemingly inspired by Tilda Swinton—to convince his marks.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Inhabit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhabit. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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