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- adjective
Uninhabited , having no human residents.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective with no people living there
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Examples
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The terrorist plot he refers to is in unpopulated areas, not So-Cal.
Terrorist Forest Fires? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Now, the military says it was targeted at five sites around Baghdad, all of them outside of Baghdad, and in what the U.S. military called unpopulated areas.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Iraq Bills Allied Bombing as Holy War - February 17, 2001 2001
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Something about the built environment is really coherent with the rest of Canada and the United States, in a way that is profoundly different from most of Europe (wider, straighter roads, towns and cities built in ‘blocks’, improbably huge unpopulated expanses, the types of fast-food outlet there are, the size of the shops).
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"China" Koplin Del Rio Gallery 6031 Washington Blvd., 310-836-9055, through Feb. 18 , somewhat capitalizes on this by showing sketches and even journal snippets to augment Mr. Harris's skillful oils—painted back in the U.S.—of unpopulated interiors and alleyways.
The Edge of a New Frontier Peter Plagens 2012
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In areas of low hunter volume or access, or vastly unpopulated wilderness, predators will do their job and should be left alone to do so, for the most part.
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This reversed a longstanding policy of building resorts on unpopulated islands to minimize interaction with visitors.
The Maldives Sink Into Instability Ron Gluckman 2012
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Ms. Höfer's often elaborately decorated interiors—here libraries and research centers—are eerily unpopulated; we are made to focus on the geometry of the room and the particulars of its furnishings, so that the images become meditations on time, as much as on the character of place.
At the Clark, Social Commentary Made Beautiful Karen Wilkin 2011
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When the winds blow to the northeast toward the unpopulated Arctic — typical in springtime — the danger to aircraft is minimized.
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After extracting Media Companion and running it, you should see the unpopulated interface shown in the screenshot below.
How To Whip Your Movie And TV Show Art Into Shape For XBMC And Boxee | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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If the dam project is defeated, enviro elites will keep Patagonia's wild, unpopulated expanses as their personal retreat.
U.S. Greens vs. Chile's Poor Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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