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populace

[pop-yuh-luhs] / ˈpɒp yə ləs /


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Bring in working-age people and a populace can rebalance the retired old with the productive young without waiting 20 years for babies to grow up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

The populace reacted so strongly to those images.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Faber is positive about one thing: the ability of capitalism to lift the world’s populace out of poverty.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

Over decades, the conglomerate seeped into every sector of American life to a degree that it might as well own the populace.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024

Although Hopewell villages were as small as those of their more egalitarian neighbors, they were stratified, with priesdy rulers controlling the rest of the populace.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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