populate
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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
In fact, daemons of all stripes populate the series – and always in pairs.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Straw men populate the book’s later chapters, particularly on economic questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Literacy rates climbed, and educated blacks began to populate legislatures, open schools, and initiate successful businesses.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
At this season the beauty of every thing around you populates the loneliness of your way.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
Reconstructing the transition from a world populated almost entirely by microbes to one filled with plants, animals, and fungi could also help scientists understand whether complex life might develop elsewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 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
July 2026 began with a heat wave gripping much of the densely populated eastern United States.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
We were led to a large room with rows of folding chairs populated by only one man.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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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
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
Still others played by wearing their glasses while walking around the real world, showing off their virtual pet tigers or populating the streets with their favorite celebrities.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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