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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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Most people with lactose malabsorption can still tolerate some lactose without symptoms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Because we’re using a lot of materials right now to make emergency repairs to keep people safe, we then have to purchase more materials to do the permanent repairs,” Martin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although the heaviest rain is over, according to meteorologists with the National Weather Service, people across the Southwest can expect spotty rain and high tides for the next couple of days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

"I know a lot of people have had to go back to their banks and increase their lines of credit."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

But at Carville, people of all ethnicities and social classes—from the destitute to the wealthy—intermingle.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Foran said that at the time, the colonies that later became Canada relied on Great Britain and its Royal Navy for its defence, as well as indigenous peoples who served as generals in major battles.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"We must grasp the historical significance of what is taking place, namely an unprecedented encounter between peoples and cultures."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Let us keep advancing the cause of friendship between our two peoples and work together to build a better world," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

She replied that she loved friends, not peoples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Which ones seem to be related to Indigenous peoples?

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"It's a huge office that was all about men and money, and we've peopled it with a kind of female anarchy, which feels really exciting," said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who set up the project.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024

The system of transporting criminals to Siberia has proved, the more the territory became peopled with voluntary settlers, prejudicial to Siberia itself.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

“Horizon” is absurdly over-plotted and peopled with redundant characters, lending it an epic “scope” that aspires to an E.L.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

Of course, each form developed its own machinery for survival, and some failed and disappeared while others peopled the earth.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

But he also may have been seeking to expand the notion of the American polity, peopling the Revolutionary moment with groups typically excluded from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

"People like me who are interested in the peopling of the Americas are very interested in knowing if those first Americans came with dogs," Lanoë added.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“This is fascinating work,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, paleogeneticist Jennifer Raff, who studies the early peopling of the Americas, wrote in an email.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022

The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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