PEOPLE

Meaning of PEOPLE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a crowd of people

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I pushed my way through the crowd of people.

boat people

bring people together

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He said that the main purpose of the Baha'i Faith was to bring people together .

decent citizens/people/folk etc

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The majority of residents here are decent citizens.

dozens of people/companies/cars etc (= but not hundreds or thousands )

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Dozens of people were killed.

frail elderly people

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frail elderly people

good with people (= skilful at dealing with people )

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He’s very good with people .

hundreds of people/years/pounds etc

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Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.

like-minded people

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a chance to meet like-minded people

little people

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It’s the little people who bear the brunt of taxation.

old people's home

ordinary people

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The book is about ordinary people .

people carrier

people rise in rebellion (= start rebelling )

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The peasants rose in rebellion.

people rise in revolt (= start to take part in a revolt )

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At a word from Gandhi, India would have risen in revolt.

people skills

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A doctor needs people skills as well as technical knowledge.

people/interpersonal skills (= the ability to deal with people )

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He wasn’t a good communicator and had no people skills at all.

prejudice against women/black people etc

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There is still a lot of prejudice against women in positions of authority.

street people

subjugated people/nation/country

the many people/things etc

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We should like to thank the many people who have written to us offering their support.

those same people

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It is those same people who voted for the Democrats who now complain about their policies.

working man/people/folk

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the ordinary working man

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

black

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As usual Black people are on the margins, and seem to be animated props.

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An angry crowd of black people .

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It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic, black people , are paying the price.

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He hung out with black people when it could have been a career-killer for anybody else.

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Up to 500 black people are killed by the security forces.

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Arkansas joined Dixie in enslaving black people and suffering in Reconstruction.

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Relatively, more black people were held in secure prisons.

disabled

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Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.

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The approach to Disabled people of the arts community does not escape this conditioning.

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Our main goal is to bring a little sunshine in to the lives of all disabled people .

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All stand to gain from such legislation and comparative employment law can be used to empower disabled people .

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Need fewer poor people , black people, disabled people?

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But disabled people gathered in Duke Street during the ceremony to protest at the scheme.

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Other work included decorating and gardening for elderly people , single parents and disabled people.

elderly

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These factors indicate that the families of vulnerable elderly people are not easy to define.

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Hughes looks at comprehensive assessment of elderly people and their carers.

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Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.

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Voice over 300 elderly people were in the audience.

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Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.

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That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels.

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Standard of Living A significant number of elderly people have a low standard of living.

local

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Why may some local people dislike this?

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These clinics were run by the government to serve local people .

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It would, says Peter Allen, also signal a message of hope for local people .

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Outside the site offices local people queue for jobs that were promised to each family.

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Although local people must have known his hiding place, he was never betrayed.

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Most protestors were local but people from Belfast, Cork, Derry, Dublin and other areas attended.

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This boat now provides access to the forest for scientists and local people .

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The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.

old

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I have heard therapists say matter-of-factly that in old people , withdrawal, depression, and apathy are normal.

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Oral historians had meanwhile begun to record the earlier memories of ordinary old people , working right across the country.

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It's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever.

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Perhaps that was how middle-aged or old people felt about love.

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Yet older people are either chopped or, worse, not given a chance.

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All those boarded-up shops and only old people about, dreaming on doorsteps or creeping along in the sun.

ordinary

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He has gone to meet ordinary people .

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They were just ordinary lower-class people , administrators, small bureaucrats, or Lumpenproletariat.

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By comparison with the religious orders, the secular church went much closer into the life of ordinary people .

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As a leader, Kim was cordial to and comfortable with ordinary people .

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Strangers, the poor, knights, soldiers, friars, and ordinary rural people are provided for.

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Factories closed, hundreds were thrown out of work, and, as winter approached, ordinary people began to shiver.

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But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people , businesses and government.

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When ordinary people are called upon to make sense of this hash the results can be truly nutty.

other

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But he wasn't stuck up about this, nor did he ignore Carrie and Nick when other people were there.

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I felt possessive about those bands, and felt jealous when other people wrote about them.

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Relationships - enjoying the support of other people .

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They look great on other people , but not on me.

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There are other people who have sun-tans that leave white patches on their arms.

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I was so sure I knew what was right, so critical of other people .

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A similar illness affected dozens of other people across the region.

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But other people wouldn't care about that.

young

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Those most likely to be caught in this new, downward flow are young people from the poorest homes.

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These young people have been raised in the glare of cease-less media violence and incitement to every depravity of act and spirit.

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There would be a test for all young people at the age of twenty-one.

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Since Partnerships have a responsibility to achieve equal opportunities for all young people , community organisations should participate at the planning stage.

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And many of these young people are well qualified and well paid.

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In turn, this can lead to an acceptance of physical ill-health that would not be tolerated by younger people .

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The effects of unemployment Furthermore, young people themselves do not respond uniformly to unemployment.

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The young people who returned illegally to the cities felt there was little left to lose.

■ VERB

help

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They are usually purpose-built, with facilities to help disabled people and are staffed by qualified people.

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There are two important elements in practicing law that I cherish: independence and helping other people .

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I have emphasized these aspects in order to help people protect themselves.

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Lower wage settlements, claimed the Treasury and the Department of Employment, would help to price people back into jobs.

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I am much more aware of oppression and racism now, more socially aware, more into doing things to help people .

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The effect would be worst on their small projects ... the kind which help poor people the most.

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The program helped talented people develop the rarefied skills of a Disney animator, and it became a fixture of the studio.

kill

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And sometimes we kill people , although hardly at all these days.

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You want to add more magazines to the assault weapons so they can spray and kill even more people .

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Rogue troops are even suspected of participating in the car bombing at the Jakarta stock exchange in September that killed 15 people .

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Strokes kill people and cancers kill people, but can a stroke kill a cancer?

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Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people .

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It came to Fakhru that he had tried to kill two people that morning and it was still not time for lunch.

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According to the International Herald Tribune of June 11 the tribal separatist movement there had killed an estimated 2,000 people since 1975.

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The immorality lies in the inherent wrongness of people deliberately killing other people.

live

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It is the responsibility of the regional ambulance officer to deliver that standard to all the people living in his district.

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No matter how people live , they are still human beings, and they deserve to be treated like human beings.

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It's the story of the people who live there.

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The people who lived under it hated it.

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We felt sorry for the people who lived in towns.

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And 25 percent of divorced people would also live the single life.

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The grants aim to help people live in the community as independently as possible.

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His book, Learned Optimism, is a must for really negative thinkers or the people who live with them.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

X number of people/things

a (whole) host of people/things

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I am extremely -; oh, a host of things, but not angry any more.

a man of the people

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Springsteen is still a man of the people.

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Supporters viewed him as a man of the people.

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He truly is a man of the people.

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Joey, a legend among motor-cycling fans in Ulster, has always been a man of the people.

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Just a man of the people, trying to make a dollar.

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The Conservatives want to demonstrate that the Prime Minister is a man of the people.

be all things to all men/people

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I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.

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Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.

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Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.

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For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.

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In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.

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It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.

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No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.

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Politicians have to be all things to all people.

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The single truck was all things to all men and women.

innocent victims/bystanders/people etc

of all people/things/places etc

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A kitten, of all things.

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He of all people picks his words carefully.

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She heard, of all things, a piano.

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She was a homeless wanderer until tiny Delos alone of all places on earth consented to receive her.

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So, in Missouri, of all places, my Koreanization began.

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The rest of my offences were committed in self-defence, when I found the hands of all People were against me.

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There I was admitted by the butler, of all people.

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William Forsyth began it before he sold out, with the help of John Brown, of all people.

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

people/women/students etc of color

serve two/three/four etc (people)

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After serving two years of her sentence, she was released on probation.

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As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts.

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He gave Edberg no chance of breaking him, serving four stunning aces and a massive percentage of first services.

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Newton was released after serving two years in prison.

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Reagan became the first incumbent to serve two terms in the presidency since Dwight D.. Eisenhower in the 1950s.

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She served three consecutive terms from 1877 to 1885, and was noted for her fearlessness and power of debate.

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The new managers saw their administrative responsibilities as serving two purposes.

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This story serves two important purposes.

some 500 people/50%/£100 etc

some people have all the luck

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It costs a fortune to buy a Porsche - some people have all the luck .

the little people

the mass of people/the population/workers etc

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For the mass of the population, indeed, the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction.

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Such feelings developed very much within the context of the lived experience of the mass of the population.

travelling people/folk

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I get the impression the indigenous locals know the travelling people keep disappearing to have some blow, and resent it.

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In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.

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There are areas that are perfectly acceptable to the travelling people who use York.

turn (people's) heads

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Wilkins has turned some heads by claiming to be the best football player ever.

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A kiss-and-tell look behind the scenes of a sport always turns heads with book publishers.

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Her tiny waist and substantial bosom turned heads right across the bar.

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My average customer wants to be seen, wants to turn heads.

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None of the Lavenders had ever turned heads.

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She would have turned heads anywhere in a navy blue backless dress which rose just above her knee.

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The blast must have hit solidly all at once and had given them the briefest chance to turn heads only.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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People are getting very worried about rising crime.

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People sometimes make fun of my name.

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an earthquake that left thousands of people homeless

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How many people were at the concert?

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I don't want people to feel sorry for me.

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I like the people I work with.

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I never understand people who say they don't like vegetables.

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Most people hate writing essays, but I quite like it.

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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Historical objects provide links with the people who made and used them.

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I think people thought in the beginning I was going to be a flash in the pan, like Tiny Tim.

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It means that people need or want a product.

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Later, her staff members became aware of the larger number of promotions and monetary rewards accorded to people in other groups.

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Mobility Allowance is paid to people who become unable to walk or virtually unable to walk before the age of 65.

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Protean-like kings, these people raise and they may likewise level.

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Thomas' own sales and publicity team consists of 12 people in the office, plus eight reps.

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Three people , whom I did not know, asked me about the outcome.

II. verb