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“It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends, where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Between 1 January and 1 August 2026, a total of 14,526 people crossed the English Channel by small boat from France.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Arman Asmara Syarifuddin, an East Java police official, told Kompas TV on Monday some 28 people were still missing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
“The people I love—my husband, our children, our friends—filling our house with people we love, that’s the greatest joy in my life and what gives me balance,” Amal said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Most people have natural protection against the bacteria that causes HD.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Catholic missionaries arrived, too, and with them came the flourishing of religious art used to inspire and convert the native peoples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
For Osborne, the tapestry tells a story of destruction and invasion, but also of two nations, two peoples, forever entwined.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
They were among the first Indigenous peoples on the Eastern Seaboard to experience what can accurately be called an invasion of European colonizers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
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
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
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
“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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