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She put the app online for $1 a month, and within weeks people downloaded it thousands of times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
TV footage showed people queueing for petrol and drinking water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Investigators said the breach was limited, involving about 40-50 people, and the Supreme Court ruled the exam's overall integrity remained intact, rejecting calls for a re-test.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
These results may have practical importance because functional health reflects whether people can continue performing routine activities without being held back by fatigue or other symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
“It may be a sick world, but it certainly has some lovely and wonderful people in it!”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
Cunningham said the exhibition -- Revolution 250 -- also brought forward voices often absent from traditional accounts, including indigenous peoples, black loyalists and enslaved individuals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 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
The militias were not the only settler groups Indigenous peoples fought as they fended off invasion.
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
“Horizon” is absurdly over-plotted and peopled with redundant characters, lending it an epic “scope” that aspires to an E.L.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
The others are braced in darkness, peopled by roaches and mice.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
He collected stories and wrote his own, often basing them in a fictional town, Centralia, and peopling his tales with characters like Lunchbox, Co-op George, Martin Rosewater and Uncle Grover Bass.
From New York Times ● Oct. 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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