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They arrived through painstaking reporting by ProPublica and The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins and were confirmed in meaningful respects by the people involved.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
The leader of the Labour group, Abu Sultan, told a meeting of the full council on Wednesday that, after more than 20 years, it was time to give the people a chance to vote again.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But Modi reiterated plans to train 100,000 engineers for semiconductor projects and 10 million people in artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
In order to move up, the people we manage or work with do usually have to like us.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Funyuns? Frosted Flakes? Corn Pops? How do I stop you people from eating like five-year-olds on Halloween?” he asks.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
She saw mythological narratives as vessels in which we can see essential truths about how peoples of the past understood their world and their place in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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
It is breathtaking, but no miracle, that they have survived as peoples.
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
"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
It was peopled by letter carriers, firemen and those store owners who were affluent enough not to have to live in the rooms in back of the store.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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