Fill
Occupied
Occupied adjective - Involved in often constant activity.
Both words in one sentence
- Originally the medallions were going to fill the niche now occupied by the warp songs.
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In The Forgotten Planet, Murray Leinster carefully justifies this by giving the planet patterns of weather that make photosynthetic life forms non-viable, allowing saprophytes to fill the niches occupied by trees, grasses, etc.
Source: Fungus Humongous -
Stopped Caring: Having failed to find anyone, Phil reverts to an essentially feral existence, turning a swimming pool into a giant latrine and allowing the mansion he occupied to fill up with garbage.
Source: Series / The Last Man on Earth
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