inhabited
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Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
As a result, the mummy provides an unusual window into the microbial communities that once inhabited the human body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Jail Time Records studio is rudimentary - a small, sweaty recording booth attached to a room inhabited by a solitary computer.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Like many Americans, she read “Little House in the Big Woods” when she was a child and immediately fell in love with Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls, her family, friends and the world they inhabited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Although they worked no more than a few hundred feet apart, the two of them might as well have inhabited two warring continents.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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