How to Use decennial in a Sentence

decennial

adjective
  • The decennial count determines each state's share of House representatives and electoral college votes.
    Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • During the days of the Raj, the decennial censuses gave it a new contour.
    Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
  • What’s unique about the decennial census in the United States?
    Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The trial is to prepare for the next decennial census in March 2020.
    Youyou Zhou, Quartz Africa, 18 June 2019
  • The Time Pyramid in Bavaria, Germany will add its fourth decennial block in 2023.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2020
  • The redistricting process — which is meant to be a decennial process — will drag on past this midterm.
    Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Among the most pressing issues the high court is expected to tackle by the end of the year center on the decennial count of people living in the U.S.
    Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The Census Bureau is due to release the first detailed results of the decennial count in mid-August.
    WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
  • That question hasn't been asked in a decennial census since 1950.
    George Skelton, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • This month is especially weak at this point in the election year cycle and in the decennial cycle.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The administration had sought to add the question to the decennial census form.
    oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
  • The pandemic has upended the timeline for the massive decennial effort to count everyone living in the United States and there is a lot on the line.
    Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2020
  • For the 2020 census, the bureau mailed postcards with a special code to every household in the country inviting them to fill out the decennial census online.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The relationship data the decennial census collects can be used in a number of ways, the spokesperson added.
    NBC News, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Highland Park lost 16% of its housing stock in the last decade, while the occupancy rate held steady at 76% between the decennial counts, census data shows.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The decennial Census aims to count everyone living in the United States once every 10 years.
    Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2020
  • States redraw their legislative maps every ten years to keep up with the decennial census.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The government has counted 91 million households, or 62% of those in the U.S., since the bulk of the decennial population tally got under way in March.
    Janet Adamy, WSJ, 8 July 2020
  • In 2005, the ACS replaced an extended version of the decennial census.
    Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 16 Sep. 2019
  • As part of the 2020 decennial census, U.S. census workers went door-to-door to check whether anybody is currently living at every home in the country.
    Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • When Bouk was doing his research, 1940 was the most recent decennial census for which full data was available.
    Karen Sandstrom, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In the run-up to the 2020 census, the government has embraced technology as never before, hoping to halt the ballooning cost of the decennial head count.
    Chris Hamby, New York Times, 3 July 2019
  • We were told that this was a historic moment—the first time that a decennial census NRFU count would be carried out entirely by smartphone.
    Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The decennial pattern, for example, was identified with decades of hindsight, and drops of 10% or more aren’t all that uncommon.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The state lost a congressional seat in the previous decennial census as well.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • This is the first decennial census in which most participants are being encouraged to fill out the form online.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The board is tasked with the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative boundaries in Arkansas after the decennial census.
    Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The nation’s population grew just 7.4% during the decade, the second slowest on record for a decennial census.
    John McCormick, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
  • That's the date the U.S. Census Bureau uses to determine where people are living when they're counted for the decennial census.
    David Showers, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But as its name suggests, the decennial census is conducted every ten years.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024

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