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“I didn’t want that clean, wholesome life ... It felt so fake. I identified with real people, oppressed people who were outside that life. I wanted to taste real life — street life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
A third also had concerns about "over-referring" people for further testing to rule out cancers, given hospitals are already overstretched.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
As many as 200 people with whom she may have had contact were under quarantine, the People of Baikal outlet added, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
However, people also realize the foundation for bonds now looks different from four years ago, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
He adds other eyewitness statements from Cavendish people including Mr. Adams, the hotel owner, and some of Phineas's workmen.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
"Let us keep advancing the cause of friendship between our two peoples and work together to build a better world," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
They collaborated on “what became the most significant effort to convert Native peoples in English North America”: a translation of the Bible into the Wampanoag language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It lies close to Great Ghost Lake, a place considered sacred by Indigenous peoples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
And yet, by 2100 BCE, the Hohokam peoples of that area had traded for, and were cultivating, corn, beans, squash, and cotton.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"It's a huge office that was all about men and money, and we've peopled it with a kind of female anarchy, which feels really exciting," said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who set up the project.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
It’s peopled by lawyers who appear to be totally oblivious to the technological world they live in.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2024
Helene and her daughter entered a coach peopled by some twenty white men and women.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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
According to the museum’s website, Mr. Woodbury researched “potential connections between Indigenous communities to study human variation and support early anthropological theories around the peopling of North America.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
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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