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Depopulated public spaces may or may not encourage misbehavior—but they certainly make it more visible.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2023

Depopulated the city may have been, and its commerce may, no doubt, have suffered in consequence, but the Catalonian character was energetic, and the city still preserved much of its previously accumulated wealth.

From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby

Depopulated Italy needed more and more foreign hands, and Syria furnished a large quota of the forced immigration of cultivators.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz

Depopulated by time, which has more than once introduced frightful pestilence, there are now not half that number.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832 by Various