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populate

[pop-yuh-leyt] / ˈpɒp jəˌleɪt /
VERB
supply with inhabitants
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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If so, the Saguaro could offer an important link between the large population of little red dots Webb sees at high redshift and the galaxies that populate the more recent universe.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

“During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, many more unhoused people began to populate our Metro system,” Mayor Karen Bass, who became Metro’s chair in July, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, the walkers, families and nature lovers who usually populate the village during the summer months have been replaced by police, forensics officers and journalists.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Of the 224 throughout the state, 140 populate central Ohio, dotting the city center through to the edges of suburban cities like New Albany and Dublin, according to Data Center Map.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

Children as young as three, bewildered, desperate, populate these foster homes.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

One simple Google search of the laptop populates a collection of rave reviews from people who have gotten their hands on the device before it officially becomes available on Wednesday.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

Ms. Doucet populates the book with sympathetic characters—the “real cement and steel of the Inter-Con”—conscientious and kind Afghans who keep the hotel going as regimes collapse, rulers change, mores alter.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

Janney’s former showgirl character populates her mansion with taxidermy birds who reflect the plumage of her old career and because, “she is kind of a prisoner in her birdcage of a house with her marriage.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2024

He populates his posts with a colorful cast of celebrities: actors like Tim Allen and Whoopi Goldberg or musicians like Jason Aldean and Kid Rock.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2024

As long as we have reasonable wants we get on comfortably, but it is the struggle after luxuries that fills society with distress, and populates prisons, and sends hundreds of people stark mad.

From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

The largest losses occurred in heavily populated downstream basins where irrigation demands are high, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra, Indus and Amu Darya basins.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The local authority has previously said the Highlands, which has large, sparsely populated areas, offered astronomy fans some of the darkest skies in Europe.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Hilton leads in the state’s more sparsely populated and conservative-leaning areas, including the Central Valley and North Coast/Sierra region.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Much of that spending is concentrated in España vaciada—empty Spain—a term Spaniards use to describe the vast, sparsely populated interior regions where tourists rarely venture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

They wanted her to be a cannibal, a witch, a six-armed monster—the characters from their grandfather’s stories with which they populated their games.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

This is how the scores of docuseries and podcasts populating the genre transform actual horror into digestible content.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2026

Suddenly, most of the major groups of animals alive today -- including vertebrates which would eventually include humans -- evolved and started populating the world's oceans.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

For an hour, in the hostile territory of Parc des Princes, Spurs showed enough determination and creation to keep even PSG's "Ultras" populating Virage Auteuil relatively subdued.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

Because of their key role in establishing and populating a colony, settlers may be called colonizers.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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