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populate

verb as in supply with inhabitants

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Cinema is not a video game populated by avatars; it is a medium of imagination grounded in human imperfection.

Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.

The Tripp proposal is key to ending a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan that started over Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan historically populated by Armenians.

From BBC

The troglodytes that populate X — among whom Vance spends an inordinate amount of his day — may be thrilled.

From Salon

But these places are far from job centers, have little infrastructure and are sparsely populated, mostly by retirees and people with few financial resources.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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