denizens

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Or just to the days when the problems that have long racked L.A. didn’t lap up to the denizens of Prattland — until they did?

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Its denizens are mostly nameless, speaking only when spoken to—props in the psychological drama of four young protagonists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The denizens of San Lorenzo are unlikely to have shared Europeans' dismay at the physical deformity portrayed in these images.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann