people
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In the past, people without business contacts or particular savvy might not have known how to get their ideas off the ground, said Ernie Tedeschi, Stripe’s chief economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I think people over-index on how easy AI is and under-index on how much I did to get to this point,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
These results may have practical importance because functional health reflects whether people can continue performing routine activities without being held back by fatigue or other symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
“By improving the theater, there would be more people and therefore more sales.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“If you really want your head to be messed with, take a look at some of the people on this thread—some of them are right here at this school.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Even if ultimately the Ingalls and their neighbors can only slow down the inevitable, they learn to see each other clearly and value what the many hands of many peoples can make.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Like many historians, Ms. Fletcher warns against exaggerating the physical and psychological effect of gunpowder weapons upon indigenous peoples who were unfamiliar with such technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
During a meeting with the president, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of "a deep spiritual bond between our peoples".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
In April, he attended the Free Land Camp, the largest annual gathering of Indigenous peoples, in Brasilia, the capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Like most ancient peoples, the Greeks were stargazers, and the Babylonians were the first masters of astronomy: they had learned how to predict eclipses.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The village was peopled with "extraordinary, eccentric, cosmopolitan people, defeated by life", some of whom would later reappear in her fiction.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
It’s peopled by lawyers who appear to be totally oblivious to the technological world they live in.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
This is the problem Ava Chin is up against in her sensitive, ambitious, well-reported, heavily peopled yet curiously remote memoir-cum-history, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
In fact, between them the twins had fairly peopled the room.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
But he also may have been seeking to expand the notion of the American polity, peopling the Revolutionary moment with groups typically excluded from it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"People like me who are interested in the peopling of the Americas are very interested in knowing if those first Americans came with dogs," Lanoë added.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
He collected stories and wrote his own, often basing them in a fictional town, Centralia, and peopling his tales with characters like Lunchbox, Co-op George, Martin Rosewater and Uncle Grover Bass.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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