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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inhabit .
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Examples
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So Mcleod's awakening to the truth of the liminal state that he inhabits is shown as an expansion of perception under the tutelage of Ramirez, a developing awareness of the "Quickening", a strange force infusing the world, this animistic life-force symbolised in the breath and heartbeat of a stag and in a bolt of lightning called down from the heavens.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The first thing it inhabits is a young child but it kind of hops bodies throughout the movie.
David Goyer Talks The Unborn - Dark Knight Scribe to Direct Again « FirstShowing.net 2008
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So Mcleod's awakening to the truth of the liminal state that he inhabits is shown as an expansion of perception under the tutelage of Ramirez, a developing awareness of the "Quickening", a strange force infusing the world, this animistic life-force symbolised in the breath and heartbeat of a stag and in a bolt of lightning called down from the heavens.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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If in the first few days of life the child perceives that the world he inhabits is a safe place, one that is nurturing, supportive, giving and loving, then the child will feel trust.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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If in the first few days of life the child perceives that the world he inhabits is a safe place, one that is nurturing, supportive, giving and loving, then the child will feel trust.
Being a Good Parent 2007
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The animal from which the chamois skin derives its name inhabits the high mountains from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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That, he said, is preferable to the world he inhabits, which is, "let's admit it, an often narrow-minded Hollywood industry."
SQUIBLE 2010
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If man were in harmony with this, if he too were righteous, he would inherit of his Father a something in his degree correspondent to the creative power in Him; and the world he inhabits, which is but an extension of his body, would, I think, be subject to him in a way surpassing his wildest dreams of dominion, for it would be the perfect dominion of holy law -- a virtue flowing to and from him through the channel of a perfect obedience.
Miracles of Our Lord George MacDonald 1864
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More specifically, taking the wholly unsupportable position that because one "inhabits" a place on our globe one is knowledgeable about its characteristics.
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More specifically, taking the wholly unsupportable position that because one "inhabits" a place on our globe one is knowledgeable about its characteristics.
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