people
Example Sentences
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We’ll keep it breezy, useful and real, because, as we’ve learned, most people are just trying to get a little better with their money without turning into day traders or Ebenezer Scrooge.
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You walk up to a bunch of nice people in Hoosiers sweatshirts and you make the following, startling announcement:
Adds Ms. Ackmann: “She once joked that if she lived to be one hundred, she hoped people would say, ‘dang, she looks good for her age!’”
When Columbus’s statue was yanked from Newark, N.J., the city’s mayor insisted that he had no objections to people celebrating Columbus: “We’re just asking that you not make us celebrate him as well.”
On the morning of the eruption itself, the volcanic rock cracked overhead while people continued to go about their business.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.