as in to inhabit
to supply with inhabitants
a small island populated only by woodland creatures
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White and his co-conspirators were left to populate an almost entirely new cast.
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Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Musk, the Tesla chief who purchased Twitter and has vowed to populate Mars, has been a colossal distraction and a magnet for controversy from what should be a unified Republican team in control of the House, the Senate, and the executive branch.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
This was the latest in a series of flights populating the NRO's constellation of low-Earth orbit reconnaissance satellites.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
In contrast to the precision timepieces that populate it, The Clock keeps time in aggregate while syncopating time from moment to moment.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Musk, the Tesla chief who purchased Twitter and has vowed to populate Mars, has been a colossal distraction and a magnet for controversy from what should be a unified Republican team in control of the House, the Senate, and the executive branch.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
This was the latest in a series of flights populating the NRO's constellation of low-Earth orbit reconnaissance satellites.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
In contrast to the precision timepieces that populate it, The Clock keeps time in aggregate while syncopating time from moment to moment.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Populate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populate. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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