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as in populace
the body of the community as contrasted with the elite
tensions mounted until the people rose up in rebellion
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as in family
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
introduced my new boyfriend to my people
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as in to inhabit
to supply with inhabitants
a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars
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Recent Examples of people
The Editors, National Review, 28 Nov. 2024
Indeed, Gabet was moved to learn from his one of his curators that the artisans who created 17th-century tapestries meticulously tweaked weaving techniques to demarcate the various fabrics worn by those peopling the vast scenes.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
By Meaghan Garvey February 13, 2025 Image by Chris Panicker, photo by Chris Weeks/WireImage
Know that all of Nature is but a magic theater,
that the great Mother is the master magician,
and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2025
Our ancestors peopled the most lonesome reaches of the globe, from Hawaii to Easter Island, in the span of just a few thousand years.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Colonies founded by charters to private companies and peopled by restless dreamers gave us an entrepreneurial spirit from the outset.
—The Editors, National Review, 28 Nov. 2024
Indeed, Gabet was moved to learn from his one of his curators that the artisans who created 17th-century tapestries meticulously tweaked weaving techniques to demarcate the various fabrics worn by those peopling the vast scenes.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
By Meaghan Garvey February 13, 2025 Image by Chris Panicker, photo by Chris Weeks/WireImage
Know that all of Nature is but a magic theater,
that the great Mother is the master magician,
and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2025
Our ancestors peopled the most lonesome reaches of the globe, from Hawaii to Easter Island, in the span of just a few thousand years.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Some, like the gray reef shark and blacktip shark, inhabit coral reefs.—
Irit Skulnik,
Baltimore Sun,
22 July 2025
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Wells’s great mind inhabited a small set of rooms in the six-story Tuckerman Building on Washington Square.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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The channel currently is populated by reruns of McGraw’s various shows.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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Behind a removable panel on the bottom of the enclosure is a memory slot populated with an 8GB DDR5 module.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 July 2025
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“People.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/people. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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