people
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The animal is not a danger to people as long they don’t handle them, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"We can offer really good value, organically grown, fruit and vegetables to local people who might not always be able to afford that kind of thing," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“We want people to stay in these positions because when the fires hit, we can’t be asking where is the fire force,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"We've seen quite a shift lately in the people... who are most in need and accessing food banks," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In Barnum's time, people will pay to see "living giants," "bearded ladies," and calves born with two heads.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
"I believe that only then will we be able to begin to heal and move forward -- not as adversaries, but as human beings and as peoples equal in dignity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Mr. Marquis acknowledges that the Dutch were “aggressive mercantilists with a nose for profit,” he contrasts their trade-driven but fair-minded approach toward Native American peoples with the “bellicose and imperialistic English, French, and Spanish.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It lies close to Great Ghost Lake, a place considered sacred by Indigenous peoples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
As the Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Africa they charted and named it, often borrowing names from the local peoples, or using the names of saints.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"It's a huge office that was all about men and money, and we've peopled it with a kind of female anarchy, which feels really exciting," said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who set up the project.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
"The Palace", a comedy set in a Swiss hotel peopled with a cast of grotesque characters, stars Mickey Rourke, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant and Joaquim De Almeida.
From Reuters ● Sep. 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
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
“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
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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