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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 inhabits
And that seemingly uninterrupted one-take is its own argument for the necessity of the medium to transport and astound us out of a banal world, one as banal as the one the Deliriant inhabits as civilization comes to its last gasp.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
In the film, the monster inhabits a world where people have discovered that the key to immortality is to cease dreaming, but Deliriants continue to do so, risking death in the process.
—Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Star Wagner Moura inhabits this duality in his Cannes best actor-winning performance, which is at once tender, fierce and yearning, but also mysterious and guarded.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2025
The radiant amber light in which Meto is bathed during scenes of her exploits a few years prior becomes a stark contrast to the cool blue world that Nima inhabits in the present.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
Like prophetic novels by Orwell, Huxley, or Atwood, Packer’s narrative inhabits a fantasy world that parallels our own, while using allegory to get to the heart of the risks humanity has always faced.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in contrast to the majority of jellyfish that drift deeper.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 13 Nov. 2025
First with Jeff’s Table, a popular Eastside sandwich spot, and then at OyBar in Studio City, which inhabits the former Oyster House Saloon.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
Fans have been tearing the new Springfield Island map apart to unearth Easter eggs and hidden gags, including a full dissection of the notorious wonky house that the family inhabits.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabits
occupies
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The property occupies a sizable 6,868-square-foot lot.—
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Hisense says cyan occupies a part of the spectrum where the human eye is especially sensitive, allowing the panel to render smoother gradients, more realistic tones and subtler transitions without oversaturation.—
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“Inhabits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhabits. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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