peopled

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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

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

Under a sky peopled with millions of stars and a glaring moon, the sledges bumped and clattered over the ruts and stones until they reached clear snow at the edge of town.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman