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'dwelt' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It is the past tense and past participle form of the verb 'dwell', meaning to live or reside in a place. Example: After graduating from college, James dwelt in his childhood home for a few years before finding a job in a new city.
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dwelt
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Past of dwell
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It was popular in art long before the Renaissance dwelt on all those glitzy Magi.
These, he found, were overwhelmingly in areas penetrated by settlers rather than in places where the Yanomami dwelt undisturbed.Something similar happened to chimpanzee researchers.
But it also stressed the importance of "leapfrog development" in Tibet, a goal also raised at the last such meeting, and dwelt on the need to raise rural incomes.The streets of Lhasa reveal why the countryside matters for stability in Tibet.
In the case of the applications for 501(c)(4) status, it seems to have dwelt on the submissions of small, local outfits, while waving through those from much bigger national groups.
Barack Obama's state-of-the-union speech on January 28th dwelt on how America's "ladders of opportunity" were failing (see article).
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil dwelt on the "abyss" between the rich and the poor, and said that trade should be more "fair and equal".
Yet beneath his hick accent dwelt what Robert Caro has described as the "master of the Senate"; one of the most adroit politicians and gifted wielders of power in American history.Although he will be remembered both for his triumphant successes and monumental failures, one lesson from LBJ's career is to judge someone by their accent at your peril.
News reports from last December dwelt on the ignominy of the whale funding, which is somehow supposed to benefit indirectly one of the whaling communities in the disaster-stricken areas.
The first, "Saturday", dwelt on the war with Iraq; in his new novel, "Solar", the focus is global warming.The hero of "Solar", Michael Beard, a Nobel-prize-winning scientist, also in his mid-50s when the book opens, is in the same state of decay as planet Earth.
The Tories failed to win last year's general election in part because their campaign dwelt esoterically on the Hiltonian theme of the "Big Society .But there is political utility in thinking, for few things are more politically toxic than a lack of ideas.
Asked to write an essay entitled "My Thoughts on Choosing a Profession", the 16-year-old schoolboy dwelt on his obligations to society, his natural abilities and the desire for a useful life.
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