people
Example Sentences
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"I knew two or three people in the group. They'd invited me along and said, 'come and have a good time. You'll meet some new people'," he explained.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
"My husband and I have sometimes called ourselves 'the poor people'," she explained.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
“It sort of dances around the elephant in the room by refusing to name the real problem. It’s a ‘trying to please people’ sort of report, without calling anyone out.”
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023
Jennifer Jacobs for Fortune and Bloomberg: “Why a group of ‘everyday people’ in Iowa have been invited to dinner by Chinese president Xi Jinping: ‘We’re eager to meet with him’”
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023
"The search 'invisible people' hits on 450,623 pages!"
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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