as in inhabited
to supply with inhabitants
a small island populated only by woodland creatures
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Recent Examples of populated
Just around the corner, about 210 students populated Johnson Elementary on a campus meant for 480.
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Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Unlike the other Planet of the Apes entries, this one would be populated with nearly all CGI apes, one of which Peckham had been asked to audition to play.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Rising through a manhole in the middle of a dark New York alley populated with drag queens and the colorful characters of Lower Manhattan, the ever-blond Carpenter sank into her daffy-meets-sultry routine.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The Rabbit is its own world, populated by an ambitious chef (Amaka Okafor) and her loyal right hand (Robin de Jesus), along with several front-of-house employees.
—Judy Berman, Time, 7 Sep. 2025
They are populated by trolls, gore addicts, and, of course, aspiring shooters, who study, debate, and praise mass-shooting tactics and manifestos.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Paramount President Jeff Shell told reporters at last month’s press conference marking the close of the Skydance merger that he had been struck by how sparsely populated the company’s current headquarters are at 1515 Broadway.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
While less than 1% growth might not seem like much, the news was widely seen as a sign that Macy’s efforts to army-crawl its way out of the retail graveyard populated by former rivals like Sears and Lord & Taylor (RIP) are starting to pay off.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Compared to that, the $50 million the DoD granted to universities like UM to create artificial reefs populated with heat resistant coral and oysters was peanuts.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Unlike the other Planet of the Apes entries, this one would be populated with nearly all CGI apes, one of which Peckham had been asked to audition to play.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Rising through a manhole in the middle of a dark New York alley populated with drag queens and the colorful characters of Lower Manhattan, the ever-blond Carpenter sank into her daffy-meets-sultry routine.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The Rabbit is its own world, populated by an ambitious chef (Amaka Okafor) and her loyal right hand (Robin de Jesus), along with several front-of-house employees.
—Judy Berman, Time, 7 Sep. 2025
They are populated by trolls, gore addicts, and, of course, aspiring shooters, who study, debate, and praise mass-shooting tactics and manifestos.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Paramount President Jeff Shell told reporters at last month’s press conference marking the close of the Skydance merger that he had been struck by how sparsely populated the company’s current headquarters are at 1515 Broadway.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
While less than 1% growth might not seem like much, the news was widely seen as a sign that Macy’s efforts to army-crawl its way out of the retail graveyard populated by former rivals like Sears and Lord & Taylor (RIP) are starting to pay off.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Compared to that, the $50 million the DoD granted to universities like UM to create artificial reefs populated with heat resistant coral and oysters was peanuts.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for populated
inhabited
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Once inhabited by some of the city’s wealthiest families, Troost was the target of restrictive covenants in the early 20th century that drew a distinct line of separation.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Worden tells me in an interview that Harvard scholar Robin Wordsworth, his co-author on a recent Red Planet study and one of the top American experts on terraforming Mars, is now designing compact astronaut outposts that can be positioned inside lava tubes and speedily inhabited.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Populated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populated. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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