as in populated
to supply with inhabitants
a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars
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Recent Examples of peopled
Ishaq has made a film peopled with women and boys who go beyond simple archetypes, setting joyful female solidarity against omnipresent conflict in a way designed to communicate with a broad demographic.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026
Hypocrisy, not rail spindles or dog poop, is top of the play’s agenda, and to poke around that subject the playwright has peopled his work with a collection of character types.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
The paradox of this quartet of movies up for the new casting Oscar, all boldly peopled with nonprofessionals, is that this very practice has become professionalized.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
Throughout Humphreys County and Hickman County, peopled gathered with their churches for support and comfort in the days after the tragedy.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
The Master is the greatest of them all, a movie peopled by characters who are at once intensely human and also the stuff of otherworldly fables.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026
Hypocrisy, not rail spindles or dog poop, is top of the play’s agenda, and to poke around that subject the playwright has peopled his work with a collection of character types.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
The paradox of this quartet of movies up for the new casting Oscar, all boldly peopled with nonprofessionals, is that this very practice has become professionalized.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
Throughout Humphreys County and Hickman County, peopled gathered with their churches for support and comfort in the days after the tragedy.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
The Master is the greatest of them all, a movie peopled by characters who are at once intensely human and also the stuff of otherworldly fables.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peopled
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My previous novel was populated by Christian believers who, by and large, didn’t lose their religion.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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But in other parts of the world, fires are springing up with less warning and more ferocity—in many cases, directly threatening areas densely populated by humans.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
Verb
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Field plays Tova Sullivan, a widowed, allegedly elderly woman who, because she is inhabited by the still-spunky actress, never quite seems elderly enough.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2026
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Griner’s next free throw or basket will take her to the 6,000 point milestone, a hallowed group that is inhabited by only 18 players.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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