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[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


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The Black Death is best known for the catastrophic wave of plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions of people.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Until Meadows, most people would have considered H.R.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

The general public doesn’t have “a perfect understanding of the link between deficits and the economy,” but “at some level people do understand the connection,” Goldwein added.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

And unlike many people whose vocal chords are their livelihood, Araujo says he has few ritualistic habits to protect his voice.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The highly contagious illness is caused by bacteria growing in the body, usually the lungs, and is spread through the air when people cough, sneeze, or spit.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

Colonial states are founded on dispossession, he argues—and when indigenous peoples “resist,” they are simply destroyed in the name of security.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Catholic missionaries arrived, too, and with them came the flourishing of religious art used to inspire and convert the native peoples.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Most ancient peoples believed that only emptiness and chaos were present before the universe came to be.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

He found the social rules and structure of working life easier to navigate but would often feel "bombarded" and "peopled out" by the end of a long day.

From BBC Nov. 9, 2024

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

"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

Of course, each form developed its own machinery for survival, and some failed and disappeared while others peopled the earth.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.

From Science Magazine Oct. 4, 2023

He collected stories and wrote his own, often basing them in a fictional town, Centralia, and peopling his tales with characters like Lunchbox, Co-op George, Martin Rosewater and Uncle Grover Bass.

From New York Times Oct. 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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