people
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And too many people think this is normal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Not many people see us as a community capable of achieving something this big,” said Jaelyn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
It population fluctuates but more than 1,000 people can be based there at any given time.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
AFP journalists said several hundred people gathered in the Republique square in Paris following social media calls for a gathering.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
The crowd is mostly Black, with a handful of white people.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"Let us keep advancing the cause of friendship between our two peoples and work together to build a better world," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Greenlanders and other Inuit peoples have hunted seals for their meat and skin for centuries, but international bans have collapsed sealskin markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
And yet, by 2100 BCE, the Hohokam peoples of that area had traded for, and were cultivating, corn, beans, squash, and cotton.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
No less a scribe than William Shakespeare claimed that bees “teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
In the form of lovely youths and maidens they peopled the woodland, the forest, the rivers, the sea, in harmony with the fair earth and the bright waters.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
“This is fascinating work,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, paleogeneticist Jennifer Raff, who studies the early peopling of the Americas, wrote in an email.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 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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