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The lavish production features fantastic gargoyle-like puppets who populate the "bardo," a space after death where tortured souls reside, unable to move beyond their past lives.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

In the same way, particles containing strange and anti-strange quarks populate the strangeonium region.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Zoos, according to the reporting here, were more than happy to populate their exhibits with the rarest reptiles, whether they were smuggled in or not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In fact, daemons of all stripes populate the series – and always in pairs.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

At the lake my father bartered with the Muslim businessmen, known as the Yao, who populate that part of the country.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

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

“Oppenheimer” sticks almost entirely to its protagonist’s point of view yet also populates its three-hour film with an incredible array of faces, all in exquisite detail.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

A robust fiction collection populates the center shelves, flanked by sections devoted to the four founding publishers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

I'm a barrister—briefless—the type of barrister that populates the Temple and all those places.

From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

In Austin, a newly built home’s price per square foot was nearly 20% less than that of an existing home, making for the deepest price difference across the 50 most populated U.S. metropolitan areas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

In order to beat the record, venues needed to be at least 50km apart in cities populated by more than 15,000 people, with half of the cities needing to have populations of at least 100,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The federal government owns about 28% of the nation’s land, much of it in the sparsely populated West.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

I looked like the stray dogs with mange that populated Bonetti Ranch.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

"Yes. There's a Catholic priest there who seems to be populating the whole country with redundant British and American organs."

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

If comprehensively deciphered, the relationships between the species populating the genealogical tree of life, Mr. Telford argues, offer the possibility of understanding the evolutionary history of every component of natural biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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