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Example Sentences

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The BlackFly’s range is just 20 minutes, and you can’t fly over populated areas, so forget trying to speed through your morning commute.

From The Wall Street Journal

The UN has previously urged countries and armed groups at war to avoid using powerful bombs in highly populated areas because of the danger to civilian lives.

From BBC

Now, seven companies in the semiconductor world populate the top-25 list.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s kind of a missing link in the system, through a fairly densely populated part of the city,” Elkind said of the proposed K Line extension.

From Los Angeles Times

Amazon is building delivery hubs across sparsely populated parts of the U.S. to cut shipping times to about two days, a big improvement for rural customers used to waiting up to a week.

From The Wall Street Journal