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populace

[pop-yuh-luhs] / ˈpɒp yə ləs /


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Sometimes sheep are merely sheep, and sometimes they’re stand-ins for a willfully credulous populace.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

The populace reacted so strongly to those images.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

If Kazin had any say, food security for the populace would be the priority.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

Aubrecht watches from afar as Yscalin falls to Fýredel, its ruler and populace subjugating themselves to the cruel dragons, desperate to avoid their wrath.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

All the doors and windows were closed—and the sills, it went without saying, were empty of cake—and it was desolate with dead gardens and the telltale hunched hurry of a populace that feared the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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