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Those viewers who live in less-polite environs than Idaho will likely be taken by the genteel way the officers deal with the young people, however the kids are involved with the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"So it was always such a big ambition of mine to be able to give that back to young people when I was able to."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"I am fully aware of my fate. Still, I want to go back because my people are calling me."
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The German carmaker employs about 80,000 people in Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
He doesn’t know any local people in Manila, besides the priests at the university and two other men from the Grant who’d been stranded with him.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Colonial states are founded on dispossession, he argues—and when indigenous peoples “resist,” they are simply destroyed in the name of security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
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
The dinosaur's name honors the traditions of the Aonikenk people, the southernmost group of the Indigenous Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
They traveled on overland and water routes the Indigenous peoples made, and ultimately, they used those routes to move their armies in wars against Indigenous nations and other European nations.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
He found the social rules and structure of working life easier to navigate but would often feel "bombarded" and "peopled out" by the end of a long day.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2024
Her narrative is peopled with physicians and psychologists heartlessly and casually breaching their professional responsibilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
They were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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
According to the museum’s website, Mr. Woodbury researched “potential connections between Indigenous communities to study human variation and support early anthropological theories around the peopling of North America.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 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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