populate
verb (used with object)
to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
will populate
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future tenseof populate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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When options start trading, implied volatility data will populate on trading screens.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
It has not been announced which programmes will populate the schedule for ITV Quiz.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
The biggest upcoming football event for many of the N.F.L. owners and business executives who will populate luxury boxes at the Super Bowl this weekend is not, perhaps surprisingly, the game.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
And while VRO will populate the inner solar system, it is also set to reveal the architecture of the outer solar system for the first time.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
Here the imagination is at work which in course of time will populate the Hindu Paradise with a celestial corps de ballet, the fair and frail Apsarasas.
From Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. Barnett
