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unpeopled

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verb

past tense of unpeople

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unpeopled
Adjective
Alaska has giant swaths of unpeopled country with no twirling weather radars, or none that can see beyond where mountains are blocking them. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022 Competitors camp out in the unpeopled cold to rest and feed their packs of semi-domesticated canines. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022 The emptiness and silence of his childhood reproduce themselves in the unpeopled landscapes through which his characters wander. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021 Sweeping, unpeopled vistas and close-up shots of animals render the world in an enhanced, almost unnatural, high-definition style. Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021 Hopper often produces the unease even in unpeopled landscapes and views of buildings, as if catching nature and habitation defenselessly exposed in disarray, mundanity, or squalor. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020 But finding unpeopled streetscapes is harder said than done in a city like New York or Tokyo. Michael Hardy, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020 One of the last unpeopled places on Earth became a destination point for military interests and tourists alike. David James, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2019 Alaska's many million acres of unpeopled river valleys and tundra plains would continue to attract birds if we were gone, but some species would miss us, Guers said. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpeopled
Adjective
  • China's maritime forces seized effective control over the uninhabited atoll after a 2012 standoff with the Philippines.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • The president imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China after taking office, before rolling his tariffs out to nearly all countries—even uninhabited ones—in early April.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The final outcome of the race, which was the last remaining unsettled election of the 2024 cycle, seemed uncertain for months as Griffin challenged the validity of about 65,000 ballots cast in the race over various issues.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 7 May 2025
  • With the global situation becoming more unsettled, for some that was replaced by BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible) starting in 2018. Those frameworks are still useful, but these are very different times.
    IESE Business School, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Unpeopled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpeopled. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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