verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heavily populated
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a heavily populated area
sparsely populated
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a sparsely populated area
thinly populated
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The mountain regions are more thinly populated than the lowlands.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
densely
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Other industrialized and densely populated countries have similar problems.
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Cairo experienced a sudden spurt of growth that turned it into one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.
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Understandably this kind of thing angers the inhabitants of less densely populated regions such as Ogoniland.
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The best places to get multiple reports are densely populated areas, which means cities.
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The area is quite densely populated and the majority continues to be actively farmed.
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In less densely populated areas the recovery rate is of course correspondingly lower.
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These inside surfaces are the most densely populated region of the human body.
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There may also be objections to its carrying vast loads over densely populated areas.
heavily
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This year, runners will head down heavily populated Sunset Boulevard into downtown.
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They operated in rugged enemy-fortified zones and in heavily populated rural areas.
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Once Highway 3 connects with Highway 1 at Ensenada, the area becomes heavily populated .
sparsely
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The Earth is sparsely populated and desolate, with many tower blocks lying decayed and uninhabited.
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Although sparsely populated , the country offers foreign travelers everything from historical monuments and castles to authentic saunas and high-tech industry.
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He will have noticed, as have those of us who are Friday habitue s, that the Benches are sparsely populated .
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The neon chicken radiates orange warmth into the sparsely populated diner.
thinly
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Formerly the Amazon region was more thinly populated than the Sahara, containing perhaps some 50000 people, and importing food.
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Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton.
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Both are thinly populated areas far from departure and arrival points presently used by local commuters.
■ NOUN
area
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In general, both shock waves from airbursts and tsunami waves from ocean impacts may present serious hazards to populated areas .
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Both are thinly populated areas far from departure and arrival points presently used by local commuters.
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Cairo experienced a sudden spurt of growth that turned it into one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.
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The spiders have instinctively achieved their objective of populating new areas .
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The best places to get multiple reports are densely populated areas , which means cities.
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There may also be objections to its carrying vast loads over densely populated areas .
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In less densely populated areas the recovery rate is of course correspondingly lower.
people
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After all, the city was populated by people who came from somewhere else because they were looking for something different.
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Or that every club on Howard Street has lines around the block populated by half-naked people .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thickly populated/wooded etc
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Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.
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Most of northern Calabria is mountainous and thickly wooded with pine, silver fir and maple.
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Of all the nearby hills, its pinnacle was closest to their mountain, and it was the most thickly wooded.
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Take the footpath beside the Esk, here thickly wooded with birch and ash, for a hundred yards or so upstream.
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The land over the hill was thickly wooded.
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The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land.
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We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area.
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When the air became more thickly populated, such extravagant forms disappeared.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Exponentially reproducing pornographic images are populating cyberspace.
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It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs.
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Nicholson's are emphatically not backstreet boozers populated by men in cloth caps talking about their ferrets.
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Other industrialized and densely populated countries have similar problems.
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The Haight was largely populated by trekkers from Alabama and Louisiana.
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The spiders have instinctively achieved their objective of populating new areas.
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