people vs person vs persons

Definitions

noun

1. members of a family line
2. the body of citizens of a state or country
3. the common people generally
4. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

verb

1. fill with people
2. furnish with people

Examples

People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online.

People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted.

This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.

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Definitions

noun

1. a human being
2. a human body (usually including the clothing)
3. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

Examples

So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie).

(Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.")

maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

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