peopled
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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
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
As she spoke, reality changed, the look of things altered, and the world became peopled with magical presences.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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