populate
verb (used with object)
to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
are populating
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present progressiveof populate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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None of this is unique to earthquakes: As the climate crisis accelerates, a host of new tools hoping to help users in case of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other emergencies are populating the App Store.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2022
A city of glow-worms are populating this old abandoned train station in Helensburg, Australia, providing beautiful lights on rainy days.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2022
The characters who feel the freshest at this year’s Aix Festival are populating Ted Huffman’s vivid staging of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
I think it’s great that many of the people from the Obama Administration are populating businesses that are going to be changing the world.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
Ignorance, poverty and vice are populating the world.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
