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How to pronounce “populate”

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Pronunciation guide for populate

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of populate with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Thinkand the tiniest organisms that populate our planet:
Definition summary: (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.

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CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think

and the tiniest organisms that populate our planet:

[Verb]
(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
(transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
(intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
(computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
[Adjective]
(obsolete) populous

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