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By 1956 the father of two sons had developed the “mystic conviction that he was inhabiting the wrong body.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Halliday: I physically was a different character when I was in the scenes in Toronto versus when I was in Gilead because I was inhabiting the space in a very different way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Even though the image onscreen suggested that she was looking down on the plane, she was overcome with the feeling that she was inhabiting it as it soared.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

But often it seemed as though Mattis was inhabiting a distant world.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2018

Thus during 10,000 years, each species will ebb away from certain regions it was inhabiting; and during the succeeding 10,000 years will flow back into those regions.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert