verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
now
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A plurality of peoples now inhabit most places on this earth.
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The last major eruption occurred 1, 100 years ago, when mudslides cascaded on to areas now inhabited by millions of people.
only
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There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world, or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings.
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The land was inhabited only by sheep and rabbits, and the air was inhabited by birds.
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The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters.
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Her house is in ruins now, covered with flowering weeds and inhabited only by seagulls.
■ NOUN
area
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I've no idea what sort of people inhabit the area .
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They use an intricate formula to extrapolate how many are snakes inhabiting an area .
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However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas .
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The eighteen-month bloodbath that ensued took place in inhabited areas , not in the hinterlands.
body
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During the long weeks he dreams of being hunted, inhabiting the body of the beast he pursues.
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Steve is annoyed and Amy furious at my glib suggestion that their late beloved Kiwi inhabits the body of a stranger cat.
creature
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Sam is likely to play one of the childlike creatures who inhabit the earth 800 years in the future.
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What is the largest air-breathing creature ever to inhabit the earth?
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The creatures who inhabit it are cold and greedy and evil and corrupt.
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Few creatures inhabit the ocean floor, where there is no light to sustain them.
house
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And now they inhabited their house .
island
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And I do not think that it means, as counsel argued, the individuals who inhabit these islands .
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The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.
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Although relatively few people inhabit the island , our small community is a constantly changing and very busy one.
people
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I've no idea what sort of people inhabit the area.
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The plainness of the rooms in this series makes an interesting counterpoint to the fanciful objects and people that inhabit them.
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Our dramatispersonae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways.
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Was it possible for such a large amount of people as inhabited Athena Gardens to be genuinely so cheerful and contented?
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In 1926, the year of his birth, 2 billion people inhabited this planet.
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The people who inhabit this world are people like us, people who pass us in the street.
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Although relatively few people inhabit the island, our small community is a constantly changing and very busy one.
place
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Our dramatispersonae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways.
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A plurality of peoples now inhabit most places on this earth.
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But new exquisite life can't inhabit such places .
species
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Most polar lakes are highly oligotrophic, with clear waters and a very limited range of species inhabiting them.
world
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There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world , or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings.
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But in the world inhabited by Noah Cross, truth does not so easily yield to surveillance.
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It will become a virtual world that we inhabit as an observer or a participant.
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Animism, the belief that the natural world is inhabited by spirits, is the driving force in Tuvan music.
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That is the world inhabited by the hon. Gentleman.
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It is clear that the destination of post-mortem existence was a world other than and different from the world human beings inhabit .
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Reading such a text we are reminded that the world we inhabit is constructed, not given; constructed in language.
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For much of its short history, the computer world was inhabited by a small circle of researchers, students and hobbyists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some tribes still inhabit the more remote mountains and jungles of the country.
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The island is mainly inhabited by sheep.
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The site once was inhabited by the Ohlone Indians.