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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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In a joint statement, the exes said they’d both changed, “as people do.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

But having had people like Talley, Parra, and Paul on his payroll probably isn’t helping Collins.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

"It's a risky proposition to not have people," says Senatore.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

OK, but surely that’s all for dodgy people who worked for Collins?

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

The longer we stand there, the more people join and the louder the crowd becomes.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

"In the last year alone, hundreds of thousands of Turkish friends have travelled to the Greek islands, bringing our peoples closer together," Mitsotakis said, adding that both countries want to renew the programme.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Colonial states are founded on dispossession, he argues—and when indigenous peoples “resist,” they are simply destroyed in the name of security.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

For Osborne, the tapestry tells a story of destruction and invasion, but also of two nations, two peoples, forever entwined.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Tecumseh promptly condemned the treaty and those who signed it without the approval of the peoples they represented.

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

He found the social rules and structure of working life easier to navigate but would often feel "bombarded" and "peopled out" by the end of a long day.

From BBC Nov. 9, 2024

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

From Salon Jul. 20, 2024

This is the problem Ava Chin is up against in her sensitive, ambitious, well-reported, heavily peopled yet curiously remote memoir-cum-history, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.”

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2023

"We want Dina Boluarte to resign," said Julio Saldivar, a protester from Ayacucho, where a dozen peopled died in December.

From Reuters Jan. 19, 2023

The seemingly endless list of familiar names would coax her back to sleep with a feeling of safety, of a world still peopled by those who loved her.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.

From Science Magazine Oct. 4, 2023

He collected stories and wrote his own, often basing them in a fictional town, Centralia, and peopling his tales with characters like Lunchbox, Co-op George, Martin Rosewater and Uncle Grover Bass.

From New York Times Oct. 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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