as in inhabited
to supply with inhabitants
a small island populated only by woodland creatures
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Recent Examples of populated
Roman Wasenmüller, Spotify’s vp, global head of podcasts, told The Hollywood Reporter that the existing health and wellness content on the app, populated by video and audio of mediation, yoga and strength workouts made by outside creators, has been seeing 30 percent growth year over year.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
In particular, the center group remains populated with considerable talent.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2026
These are digital environments populated by AI agents with goals, memories, and incentives—each one designed to approximate a real-world behavioral profile.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
News outlets slowly picked up on providing comment functions, hesitant at first to introduce the possibility for readers to leave their opinions directly and uninhibited in spaces formerly exclusively populated by professional journalists.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
Forging consensus Once in office, Warsh will head a Federal Open Market Committee populated with officials who have expressed misgivings about the next steps in monetary policy.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
It was populated by neither background singers nor a band.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
The original is set in an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, one of whom accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
In a cast populated by characters with shifting motivations, Eunice mostly comes off as a plot device that features more or less prominently depending on what’s going on with everyone else.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
In particular, the center group remains populated with considerable talent.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2026
These are digital environments populated by AI agents with goals, memories, and incentives—each one designed to approximate a real-world behavioral profile.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
News outlets slowly picked up on providing comment functions, hesitant at first to introduce the possibility for readers to leave their opinions directly and uninhibited in spaces formerly exclusively populated by professional journalists.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
Forging consensus Once in office, Warsh will head a Federal Open Market Committee populated with officials who have expressed misgivings about the next steps in monetary policy.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
It was populated by neither background singers nor a band.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
The original is set in an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, one of whom accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
In a cast populated by characters with shifting motivations, Eunice mostly comes off as a plot device that features more or less prominently depending on what’s going on with everyone else.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for populated
inhabited
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Archeological evidence shows that the land may have been inhabited by the native Wappo people as early as 2000 BC.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
24 Apr. 2026
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The group winds up settling on a new planet inhabited by two rival native factions, the Garkohn and the Tehkohn, and Alanna gets caught right in the middle of their conflict.—
Malia Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Populated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populated. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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