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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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Amnesty's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told BBC News on Saturday that the NGO had spoken to some of the bereaved families who said up to 50 people had died.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The incentives have been for people to keep software as long as possible, and we don't really factor these risks into the cost of having the software.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

“We would never operate a flight or have people work in a building if we were not confident in its safety,” Chief Executive Tony Douglas wrote in a companywide note earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Banks in the UK have seen profits rise in recent years because they have been able to charge people higher interest rates when borrowing money.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

She tells me the same thing that Rue did—it’s a mistake to get to know these people.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In these remote areas inhabited chiefly by Indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Guard is the first line of defense for communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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

The author of “The Sea-King and the Sorceress” on the lives and stories of the Nordic peoples who swept through Europe in the Middle Ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

He envisioned an alliance of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico.

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

And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.

From New York Times ● May 24, 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

Sea Dragon Point had not always been as thinly peopled as it was now.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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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