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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Gastropods are a class of mollusks that inhabit a wide variety of habitats around the world.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
But, Pha writes, the gap this left in the community was also an opening that other organizations and individuals can inhabit.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Jan. 2025
Productions such as the light show at Wanamaker's (and later, at Strawbridge & Clothier, Lord & Taylor and now Macy's, all of which have inhabited the space in Center City Philadelphia), for example, were created by people trained in theater production.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
But, Pha writes, the gap this left in the community was also an opening that other organizations and individuals can inhabit.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Jan. 2025
Productions such as the light show at Wanamaker's (and later, at Strawbridge & Clothier, Lord & Taylor and now Macy's, all of which have inhabited the space in Center City Philadelphia), for example, were created by people trained in theater production.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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