peopled

past tense of people
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 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 Diamandis’s network, known to its constituents as the Peterverse, is largely peopled by slim, graying, well-off men who finger their Oura rings like horcruxes. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
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  • Sharing the culture While Fleming’s classes in city classrooms and community centers with the youth are predominantly populated by Black youths, his Saturday classes are usually more diverse.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The city’s skyline appears, populated with puppets representing Loro Piana artisans, and eventually transforms into the contours of Bergdorf Goodman itself.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • In Haiti, small plots of land inhabited and worked by generations of the same family in the countryside are called the lakou.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • When those glaciers go, sea levels will rise by more than a meter, inundating land currently inhabited by 230 million people.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Peopled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peopled. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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