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populate

verb as in supply with inhabitants

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In densely-populated cities real estate is expensive and can be hard to find.

If non-edited cells in the embryo eventually populate most of the baby’s body, then the child would likely still succumb to the disease.

Shelby Babcock, 26, lives in the tiny town of Hines in sparsely populated eastern Oregon, a Republican bastion in the Democratic-leaning state.

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This is because Google uses publicly available information and data from third parties and users to populate its local listings.

Ideas about how remote Polynesia came to be populated have long inspired scientific debate.

Her Facebook photos could populate a tame “girls with guns” style calendar.

There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.

Portraits of the Rolling Stones and other easily recognizable stars populate the small, alcove-like room straight ahead.

For the truly massive companies that populate the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the percentage is even higher.

The SUVs, coupes, and sedans that populate dealer showrooms are much greener than their antecedents.

They needed souls and chimeras to populate the imaginary regions which they have discovered in the other life.

In order to populate the new port, he proclaimed there a religious liberty he denied to his Duchy at large.

They may shun all association with women but at the same time maintain that they have a cultural mission to populate the earth.

I am getting to be an old man, and I have seen a great deal of the world, as we reckon it by the human beings who populate it.

He wrote: I consider men as a herd of deer in the deer park of some great lord, having no other task but to populate the park.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to populate, such as: colonize, inhabit, occupy, live, people, and settle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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