people
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It is to point out that a series of developments have produced an outcome that many or most people never intended, and of which they are not aware.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
These expensive flyers almost never work, and people get caught in limbo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
And if those stocks truly crash, ordinary people are going to get hit with losses that are far worse than they ever imagined, and find that they are more exposed than they realized.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
OpenAI made an effort to address rising concerns about models that can go beyond boundaries that people set for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
A girl who spoke out for what was right, even when people called her a witch.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“We are the result of many cultures, stories, peoples and languages, and this gives rise to a creativity all our own. But there is a dimension to our culture that goes beyond aesthetics: our openness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Yet he says neither side is lying, something that is “not confusing if you understand the trauma that native peoples are still experiencing to this day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said she had been a "pioneering defence attorney for anti-apartheid activists" who had worked to "uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Greenlanders and other Inuit peoples have hunted seals for their meat and skin for centuries, but international bans have collapsed sealskin markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Their descendants, also called Indigenous peoples, carry memories and stories of how the United States came to be the nation we know today.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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"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
No less a scribe than William Shakespeare claimed that bees “teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Muñoz’s stories are peopled by furtive figures who grapple with survival and loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Sea Dragon Point had not always been as thinly peopled as it was now.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
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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