inhabitants
Americannoun
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Reactive evacuation measures, for example, saved 96% of Japanese inhabitants when the major tsunami struck the Tōhoku coast on March 11 2011.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
America may have empowered the president to give the capital a case of Mar-a-Lago face, but the city’s inhabitants get only the slightest of say in federal matters.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Actor DiCaprio added: "Thank you truly for everything you've done and continue to do, for our very precious planet and all its inhabitants."
From BBC • May 8, 2026
The consternation that his relationship, and subsequent marriage, to the girl triggers among the town inhabitants will ultimately lead to Kenrex’s long-delayed undoing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
These are the descendants of the fifteen million original inhabitants of the land, the majority of whom were farmers who lived in towns.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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