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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peopled
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More than 200 people were killed in July 2000 when an avalanche of garbage consumed a Manila shanty town populated by several thousand scavengers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The supporting cast is populated with adenosine, olives, argan oil, and more ingredients that contribute to its redness-neutralizing, wrinkle-smoothing, and suppleness-enhancing benefits.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
8 Jan. 2026
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Local campaigners have also expressed concern about potential damage to a culturally and historically significant site inhabited and used by Australia’s Indigenous communities for thousands of years.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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His follow-up to The Viral Underclass looks at what happens when members of minority groups achieve some kind of institutional power and what can happen when those white-supremacist structures are inhabited by the very people they were designed to oppress.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Peopled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peopled. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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