populate
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As McVay prepares for his 10th season, his influence and growing coaching tree will once again populate the NFL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the same way, particles containing strange and anti-strange quarks populate the strangeonium region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
In fact, daemons of all stripes populate the series – and always in pairs.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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Meanwhile, the walkers, families and nature lovers who usually populate the village during the summer months have been replaced by police, forensics officers and journalists.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
At the lake my father bartered with the Muslim businessmen, known as the Yao, who populate that part of the country.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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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
In a phone interview, Anderson said that when someone buys a puppy from her online, the buyer information populates a travel certificate, and she arranges the health check and transportation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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
It populates human consciousness with heroes, saints and martyrs whose example awakens in everyone touched by it capacities they had not imagined they possessed.
From Century of Light by Baha'i International Community
"Our reforms support the ambition for high-quality 5G coverage across all populated areas by 2030 and ensures landowners are treated fairly when negotiating with mobile operators."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Others in the densely populated neighbourhood described a close call.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Now, Dutch Bros might extend its play for pedestrians into other densely populated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In fact, in proportion to its available area of farmland, Japan is the most densely populated major society in the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Over the next two years, startups began populating Proto-Town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
Spurs certainly did not produce a performance to please their supporters who made the trip to Monaco, populating one corner of a stadium that is more about architecture than atmosphere.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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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