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"The people are happy to have a chat with you and tell you about themselves, and so that fitted very well," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
For instance, if OpenAI were to walk away from the project, SB Energy would first try to lease the site to another customer for the same price, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Day parties like this are less common in New York City, but people were into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is blamed for making the beach smell and stopping people from going for walks on the sand.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
She thinks of the people at the Tala Leprosarium in Novaliches, who don’t have beds of their own, or even clean water.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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It lies close to Great Ghost Lake, a place considered sacred by Indigenous peoples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
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
Military campaigns and disease did have a devastating impact on Indigenous peoples, but efforts to exterminate them were not successful.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.
From New York Times ● May 24, 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
Under a sky peopled with millions of stars and a glaring moon, the sledges bumped and clattered over the ruts and stones until they reached clear snow at the edge of town.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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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