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one who lives permanently in a place
the inhabitants of the town don't like the tourists
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Recent Examples of inhabitants
Thorpe is a longtime campaigner for a treaty between Australia and its first inhabitants, the BBC reported.
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Simon Perry, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Indeed, the pyramids, oriented to the stars, bore witness to the daily rhythms of the city’s inhabitants, a people very much influenced by their setting.
—Elissa Garay, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
Unless all of one’s ancestors are Inuit, Hawaiian or Native American — the inhabitants of the states before colonization — then all of us are descended from immigrants.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Built in 1736, the farmhouse is notorious for its haunted history — most notably when paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren performed a séance for its inhabitants, the Perron family, during the 1970s, after the family reported harrowing encounters there.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Land acknowledgements — the recognition that Indigenous people were the original inhabitants of American land — have become more common among academics, nonprofits, companies, celebrities and even in social media bios.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
Our planet will also likely have sustained at least one mass-extinction-triggering impact, unless its inhabitants have learned to divert asteroids.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
In Fairfax director Natalie Zimmerman’s gorgeous, immersive sensory feature, inhabitants of what is predicted to turn into an uninhabitable region by 2030 open up about their cherished, but endangered, way of life.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
The ancient inhabitants had to venture deep into the caves to access the water, crossing paths with huge prehistoric animals from the late Pleistocene—now long extinct—that also sought fresh water.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
Simon Perry, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Indeed, the pyramids, oriented to the stars, bore witness to the daily rhythms of the city’s inhabitants, a people very much influenced by their setting.
—Elissa Garay, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
Unless all of one’s ancestors are Inuit, Hawaiian or Native American — the inhabitants of the states before colonization — then all of us are descended from immigrants.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Built in 1736, the farmhouse is notorious for its haunted history — most notably when paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren performed a séance for its inhabitants, the Perron family, during the 1970s, after the family reported harrowing encounters there.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Land acknowledgements — the recognition that Indigenous people were the original inhabitants of American land — have become more common among academics, nonprofits, companies, celebrities and even in social media bios.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
Our planet will also likely have sustained at least one mass-extinction-triggering impact, unless its inhabitants have learned to divert asteroids.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
In Fairfax director Natalie Zimmerman’s gorgeous, immersive sensory feature, inhabitants of what is predicted to turn into an uninhabitable region by 2030 open up about their cherished, but endangered, way of life.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
The ancient inhabitants had to venture deep into the caves to access the water, crossing paths with huge prehistoric animals from the late Pleistocene—now long extinct—that also sought fresh water.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
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