PEOPLING Synonyms: 8 Similar and Opposite Words

peopling

verb

present participle of people

as in populating

to supply with inhabitants a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars

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The natural next step is to certify the data populating those definitions to the same standard as the definitions themselves, because that determines whether organizations can trust the systems built on top of them to act.

— Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
In practice, that means AI is running the numbers, populating forms, surfacing options, and even suggesting installation dates.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of populating

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What sustains him through that process, Craker added, is watching an artist move from merely singing a song to fully inhabiting it.

— Faye Bradley, Variety, 2 July 2026
Sara Bareilles grounds the action as the everywoman at the show’s center, with Busy Philipps and Paula Pell inhabiting every hilarious corner of their outsized characters.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026

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Some who don’t embrace their Spanish ancestry view those who do as part of the colonizing minority, not the colonized majority.

— Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Only about a third of clinical cases come from blood; the rest are found in urine, wounds and the respiratory tract, where the fungus is often colonizing rather than invading.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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