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populate

[pop-yuh-layt] / ˈpɒp jəˌleɪt /
VERB
supply with inhabitants
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Antonyms
STRONG


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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Meanwhile, the walkers, families and nature lovers who usually populate the village during the summer months have been replaced by police, forensics officers and journalists.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

Straw men populate the book’s later chapters, particularly on economic questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

I tried to imagine the future, to populate it with professors, homework, classrooms, but my mind couldn’t conjure them.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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 is a love which animates and populates with life his landscapes.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke

The strip was densely populated even before the war began.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The government, based in the city of Aden, controls much of the country's south and east -- a region that is larger but much less populated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Dutch Bros is testing walk-up-only windows to attract pedestrian traffic and is considering opening similar shops in other densely populated areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

London looks great; crowd scenes are well populated; chaos is properly chaotic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

When the 586th arrived in their Yaks, the enemy planes dropped their bombs in a snow-covered field instead of on their populated industrial target, and beat a hasty retreat.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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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