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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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In her 25 years on the job, this was the first time Stolarz had heard of people using the riverfront for mini concerts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Games have become second lives to people, about collaboration, puzzle solving, community and identity.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

“I had spent almost 40 years writing about people talking on a couch,” Lorre says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

As Rizzo’s study notes, this also means that the interactions with different people and cultures that used to happen organically in neighborhoods and in social spaces are increasingly being replaced by digital simulation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Everything in it is an expression of the many facets of herself, including the sides of her that most people don’t see.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Even if ultimately the Ingalls and their neighbors can only slow down the inevitable, they learn to see each other clearly and value what the many hands of many peoples can make.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 bestseller, “Ramona,” about a clash among Southern California rancheros, indigenous peoples and newly arriving white settlers, helped form later literary templates of the Old West.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

In April, he attended the Free Land Camp, the largest annual gathering of Indigenous peoples, in Brasilia, the capital.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

The dinosaur's name honors the traditions of the Aonikenk people, the southernmost group of the Indigenous Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

They traveled on overland and water routes the Indigenous peoples made, and ultimately, they used those routes to move their armies in wars against Indigenous nations and other European nations.

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

The village was peopled with "extraordinary, eccentric, cosmopolitan people, defeated by life", some of whom would later reappear in her fiction.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2025

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

Her narrative is peopled with physicians and psychologists heartlessly and casually breaching their professional responsibilities.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2023

In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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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