people
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“Incentivizing other people to invest in the neighborhood, that’s positive,” said Craig Robins, one of the biggest developers in the neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“We AI developers have no right whatsoever to bring a new species of conscious beings into the world, even if some people may want to do it with AI welfare as a top priority.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“It’s serving its purpose of bringing in people to do things that bring up the whole area.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“A surprising number of people on X think we should take AI rights seriously.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
"Strep" bacteria live on nearly everything people touch but are only dangerous if they can penetrate the body's defenses and overpower the immune system.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The most remarkable revelation is how unremarkable magic seemed to these ancient peoples: Magic might have been something supernatural, but it also wove itself into the mundane as well as the extraordinary aspects of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
What are the common factors that bind this complex, varied collection of peoples into one polity?
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Yet he says neither side is lying, something that is “not confusing if you understand the trauma that native peoples are still experiencing to this day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The remains "belong to our two peoples", Radev said as he attended a ceremony to mark the return alongside Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
If the British had considered the Indigenous peoples to be rightful owners of the land, British laws against squatting might have worked in their favor.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The village was peopled with "extraordinary, eccentric, cosmopolitan people, defeated by life", some of whom would later reappear in her fiction.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
"The Palace", a comedy set in a Swiss hotel peopled with a cast of grotesque characters, stars Mickey Rourke, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant and Joaquim De Almeida.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023
This is the problem Ava Chin is up against in her sensitive, ambitious, well-reported, heavily peopled yet curiously remote memoir-cum-history, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
In the form of lovely youths and maidens they peopled the woodland, the forest, the rivers, the sea, in harmony with the fair earth and the bright waters.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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But he also may have been seeking to expand the notion of the American polity, peopling the Revolutionary moment with groups typically excluded from it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"People like me who are interested in the peopling of the Americas are very interested in knowing if those first Americans came with dogs," Lanoë added.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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