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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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But critics say the cameras violate privacy rights and have been used by officers to stalk innocent people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

“When safe cycling infrastructure goes in, then you see a lot more women, a lot more marginalized communities, also children, elderly people, people with disabilities,” Roach said.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

A majority are women, many of whom draw on their experience as parents; this matters because people often seek health information from others whose experiences resemble their own.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

Sheen said he had received "extraordinary messages" from people who wanted to tell their stories and how they had been affected.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

“Did you read what some of the people posted, some of them from our school?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

"In the last year alone, hundreds of thousands of Turkish friends have travelled to the Greek islands, bringing our peoples closer together," Mitsotakis said, adding that both countries want to renew the programme.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

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

In spite of everything in the European arsenal of conquest, Indigenous peoples survived more than five centuries of campaigns to take over their land and resources.

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

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 those first years the roads were peopled with refugees shrouded up in their clothing.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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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