populated

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The two Black Cubans, self-taught artists from the crumbling and densely populated colonial heart of Havana, are the face of an art movement that inspired the largest peaceful protests in the regime’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

"It's a crime drama populated by flawed, funny, relatable people which, if feedback from real police officers is to be believed, isn't all that far from reality."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

"It's an outbreak that will spread very rapidly, all the more so because it has broken out in a densely populated province," virologist Jean-Jacques Muyembe told AFP.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

The Gofar fault is far from heavily populated coastlines, so the earthquakes themselves pose little direct threat to people.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia’s much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production.

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