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populace

pop yuh luhs

  • n  people in general considered as a whole

  • As the Japanese columns swung into Chinchow it was fun to see the Chinese populace, yellow if ever a populace was, waving Japanese flags hastily home-made during the night to .
  • Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace .
  • On releasing him into Chinese hands in July 1950, the Soviets heightened the ex-monarch's fears, assuring him that he would be executed by a wrathful populace.
News & Articles

  • Iowa sees surge in Asian populace, Hispanic growth remains strong
    Iowa’s Asian population is growing at a faster clip than any other racial or ethnic group, and new U.S. Census Bureau numbers reveal that people who identify as Asian now comprise 2 percent of the state’s populace.
    June 13, 2013 - The Gazette
  • More Americans Say Snowden is a Patriot, Not a Traitor
    Following the poll earlier this week that found Americans weren't too bothered by the NSA spying on them, a new survey from Reuters sought to learn how the populace at large feels about the "traitor vs. hero" debate over Edward Snowden.
    June 13, 2013 - New York Magazine
  • Iowa sees surge in Asian populace, Hispanic growth remains strong
    Iowa’s Asian population is growing at a faster clip than any other racial or ethnic group, and new U.S. Census Bureau numbers reveal that people who identify as Asian now comprise 2 percent of the state’s populace. From 2010 to 2012, the number of people living in Iowa who identify as Asian jumped 10.6 percent [...]
    June 13, 2013 - The Gazette
Quotes

  • Andrew Halcro in WOKV
    Like a lot of states, you have an angry populacein Alaska, Halcro says. "If I'm Lisa, I am worried because these guys have an appealing message _ down with government, down with incumbents."
  • HL Mencken in Boston Globe (registration)
    The whole aim of practical politics,wrote HL Mencken in 1920, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
  • Cate Blanchett in Reuters India
    I apologise to the entire Russian populace for my Russian, but hopefully it will be dubbed,Blanchett, her hair back to blonde, joked at a press conference.

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