as in inhabited
to supply with inhabitants
a small island populated only by woodland creatures
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Recent Examples of populated
Sharing the culture While Fleming’s classes in city classrooms and community centers with the youth are predominantly populated by Black youths, his Saturday classes are usually more diverse.
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Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The city’s skyline appears, populated with puppets representing Loro Piana artisans, and eventually transforms into the contours of Bergdorf Goodman itself.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Autumn Springs is populated by finely wrought individuals, led by the indomitable Rose and her roguish friend Miller.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
This is how the Greater Buenos Aires area was populated, a kind of buffer zone between Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina where migrants from other regions and countries found affordable housing.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
The movie, which posits an impending nuclear strike on a major American city, is a flimsy yet high-minded piece of doomsday schlock, largely populated by ciphers in suits and drained of the pulp pleasures that schlock, at its best, can afford.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
The people who populated her life, referred to always by their full names.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Local officials aware of that history have expressed a desire to transfer a parcel of lakeshore land back to the Onondagas, one of the native peoples who populated and governed much of upstate New York and parts of Canada before the American Revolution.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Checkmate has a storied history in the DC Comics, first appearing in 1988 and populated mostly with DC’s anti-heroes; Peacemaker and Vigilante were early members, and Bordeaux has also been a prominent operative.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
The city’s skyline appears, populated with puppets representing Loro Piana artisans, and eventually transforms into the contours of Bergdorf Goodman itself.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Autumn Springs is populated by finely wrought individuals, led by the indomitable Rose and her roguish friend Miller.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
This is how the Greater Buenos Aires area was populated, a kind of buffer zone between Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina where migrants from other regions and countries found affordable housing.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
The movie, which posits an impending nuclear strike on a major American city, is a flimsy yet high-minded piece of doomsday schlock, largely populated by ciphers in suits and drained of the pulp pleasures that schlock, at its best, can afford.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
The people who populated her life, referred to always by their full names.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Local officials aware of that history have expressed a desire to transfer a parcel of lakeshore land back to the Onondagas, one of the native peoples who populated and governed much of upstate New York and parts of Canada before the American Revolution.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Checkmate has a storied history in the DC Comics, first appearing in 1988 and populated mostly with DC’s anti-heroes; Peacemaker and Vigilante were early members, and Bordeaux has also been a prominent operative.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for populated
inhabited
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The mountains inside the park had been inhabited for centuries, by the native Cherokee and later by farmers and families who lived and worked in small mill towns tucked into the valleys.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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In 2020 and 2024, the party platform began with land acknowledgments for the Native American tribes that had previously inhabited their convention sites.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Populated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populated. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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