denizens

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And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Smog from 2 million tailpipes filled L.A.’s streets and burned the lungs of its denizens, but it was really created more than 2,000 miles away, in Detroit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Were the U.S. to replace that Danish grant, that alone would make the island’s residents the largest per capita recipients of federal grants, surpassing denizens of Alaska or Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The denizens of San Lorenzo are unlikely to have shared Europeans' dismay at the physical deformity portrayed in these images.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann