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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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpeopled
Adjective
  • Panic at being lost … The house looked uninhabited.
    Joel M. Vance, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025
  • A little over a century later, reaching the world’s only uninhabited continent is a decidedly more glamorous affair.
    Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The midterm landscape remains unsettled just over a year before Election Day.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Each reluctant participant onthis unsettled game board has an urgent, urgent mission to fleeto the next appointment, meeting, carpool pickup.
    Leslie Simon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Unpeopled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpeopled. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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