as in populating
to supply with inhabitants
a science-fiction novel about a mission to people Mars
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The song just came to me, from somewhere, populating seamlessly in a stream of consciousness.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026 -
His victim, in her unassailable purity, resists him, thereby proving that the arrivistes populating the ranks of England’s most upwardly mobile class had a moral edge over the nobility.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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But [Reeves] was inhabiting the same environment of Fort Smith and Fort Worth that the Duttons did in 1883.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
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Microraptor’s cousins lived on the ground, but inhabiting the canopy and gliding from tree to tree might have been a safer way to stay out of reach of larger meat-eating dinosaurs.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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There’s plenty of room for skepticism about the prospect of humans colonizing Mars.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Neither the French nor the Spanish ever invested significantly in colonizing the land west of the upper Mississippi, and Americans were champing at the bit.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
31 May 2026
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“Peopling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peopling. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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