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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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“The whole idea of Spyland was that people were sent here to be forgotten, to be expunged from record,” one of the newer inmates observes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

"We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of public support and people putting on their boots to help."

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Authorities charged four people over the rally, a local police official said.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Thousands of people Vance says will be permanently banned from receiving federal loans due to allegations of past fraudulent activity involving Covid-era loan facilities, such as the Paycheck Protection Program.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

“Did you read what some of the people posted, some of them from our school?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

"I believe that only then will we be able to begin to heal and move forward -- not as adversaries, but as human beings and as peoples equal in dignity."

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

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

The corps was far more numerous than the populations of the villages on its route; its ravages cleaned out food stores that local peoples counted on for survival.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

The end of the separatists’ war for independence from Britain led to a new set of circumstances for 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 Palace", a comedy set in a Swiss hotel peopled with a cast of grotesque characters, stars Mickey Rourke, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant and Joaquim De Almeida.

From Reuters Sep. 2, 2023

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

They were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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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