people
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“A lot of people would rather be in the office and in the AC,” said Gonzales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Yumi Liberman was up on stage in front of a panel of judges and an audience of 300 people, and she had to perform.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Two people familiar with the situation told the newspaper that the damage is currently being evaluated.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Greenland has repeatedly asked the EU to lift its ban on seal products, in effect since 2009, saying it harms indigenous people in the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
When Joey Guerrero dies of heart failure on June 18, none of the people in her life know anything about her past.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
She replied that she loved friends, not peoples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It lies close to Great Ghost Lake, a place considered sacred by Indigenous peoples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
In addition to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, the Olmec, Toltec, and Culhua peoples thrived in Mesoamerica at different times.
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
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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