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populace

[pop-yuh-luhs] / ˈpɒp yə ləs /


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Given the amount of information now at voter’s fingertips, we should be the most informed voting populace in the history of ballot casting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Rather, he said, leaders in a republic must seek to “mold” public sentiment—to convince an often skeptical populace that a controversial course of action is justified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The populace reacted so strongly to those images.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Plato saw it as an inevitable consequence of democracy, when a quest for freedom leads to excess and the populace demands a strongman.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

Most Eurasian states had literate bureaucracies, and in some a significant fraction of the populace other than bureaucrats was also literate.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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