inhabited
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After all, we’re on a planet where the city of Rome has been continually inhabited for 2,700 years, and the University of Bologna has been matriculating students for 938.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2026
All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
Cape Verde is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Ocean made up of 10 islands, of which nine are inhabited.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
The crocodile lived between 3.4 million and 3 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, during the same period and in the same region inhabited by Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis.
From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026
She invited us onto her property, a desolate piece of land we would have never imagined was inhabited, set far enough back from the road that we hadn’t seen it through the trees.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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