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Or a glimpse ahead to a largely peopleless dystopia?

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2023

The next day, he was in Ashgabat, the surreal, peopleless capital of Turkmenistan, a hermetic state where the post-Soviet dictator renamed the days of the week and devoted a national day to the muskmelon.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

The computer-controlled plant is the closest thing yet to the peopleless factory that futurologists predict will some day be the brave new world of manufacturing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Black draperies, likewise, in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the lurid stars, and the peopleless streets—but the boding and the memory of Evil they would not be so excluded.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Black draperies, likewise in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the lurid stars, and the peopleless streets—but the boding and the memory of Evil, they would not be so excluded.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan