people
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Today as in 2023, OpenAI is run by people completely unaccountable to investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Residents have been receiving troubling calls from people pretending to be their grandchildren, swindling them out of thousands of dollars.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Officials have warned people to stay indoors to avoid the smoke, and to avoid strenuous activity and heavy breathing when spending time outside.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
"Understanding risk factors and taking action to prevent dementia can improve health and quality of life, helping people live longer, healthier and more independent lives," it said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I would offer you some, Lala, but sometimes Traveling can make people queasy.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
In April, he attended the Free Land Camp, the largest annual gathering of Indigenous peoples, in Brasilia, the capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
What sets Forster apart from most of his contemporaries was his attitude toward indigenous peoples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The dinosaur's name honors the traditions of the Aonikenk people, the southernmost group of the Indigenous Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 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
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
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
The system of transporting criminals to Siberia has proved, the more the territory became peopled with voluntary settlers, prejudicial to Siberia itself.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
"We want Dina Boluarte to resign," said Julio Saldivar, a protester from Ayacucho, where a dozen peopled died in December.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
He bounced up and down a little, smiling in a self-satisfied way, and pointed at the many glittering photograph frames on the dresser, each peopled with tiny moving occupants.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
“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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