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The sheer number of crossing opportunities surprised Dr. Manica, given the robust evidence suggesting that only the recent mass exodus had peopled the world with Homo sapiens.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

The language it recorded was equally unknown: many ethnic groups had peopled the Bronze Age Aegean, and there was no way to tell which had produced the tablets.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2011

Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Before that cheerful red light how swiftly the trooping spectres and grim phantoms that had peopled the gloom fled away for ever!

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Of those who had peopled the canoes starting for the up-river summer camps in July, many a face would now be absent when the Crees returned for this year's trade.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.