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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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“Some people were really excited about this,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"It's very unusual that people actually come here to watch. Usually one comes to the cemetery to pray for a dead relative," the 31-year-old teacher told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

“We AI developers have no right whatsoever to bring a new species of conscious beings into the world, even if some people may want to do it with AI welfare as a top priority.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

“You can get people all day, but how do you keep them here?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

One of the first things she writes is an essay about what it means to live in a small, confined community where you interact with the same people every day of your life for years.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The most remarkable revelation is how unremarkable magic seemed to these ancient peoples: Magic might have been something supernatural, but it also wove itself into the mundane as well as the extraordinary aspects of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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 remains "belong to our two peoples", Radev said as he attended a ceremony to mark the return alongside Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Let us keep advancing the cause of friendship between our two peoples and work together to build a better world," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 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

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

In the form of lovely youths and maidens they peopled the woodland, the forest, the rivers, the sea, in harmony with the fair earth and the bright waters.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

According to the museum’s website, Mr. Woodbury researched “potential connections between Indigenous communities to study human variation and support early anthropological theories around the peopling of North America.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 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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