people
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More than 100 people traveled from as far away as Chicago and about 1,000 watched online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Local authorities said 15 people were taken to hospital, including a pregnant woman who was injured after her house collapsed on her, according to AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Anthropic, which could debut as soon as September or October, is expected to raise up to $100 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The listing carries financial sanctions, restrictions on US foreign aid and defence exports and sales and can also penalise people and other countries that trade with the sanctioned state.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It may be a sick world, but it certainly has some lovely and wonderful people in it!”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
It lies close to Great Ghost Lake, a place considered sacred by Indigenous peoples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
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
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
When the English began to invade their homelands, Indigenous peoples brought their ways of diplomacy to their interactions with the colonizers.
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
It’s peopled by lawyers who appear to be totally oblivious to the technological world they live in.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
As Dessie remembered, she heard the words and the house around her grew peopled.
From "East of Eden" 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
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
“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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