How to Use enumeration in a Sentence
enumeration
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Below is an enumeration of just some of the issues that U.S. public health is faring poorly on.
—Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
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The bureau also offered no way to compare its new enumeration rate with numbers a decade ago.
—Theresa Diffendal, The Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2020
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Although the Supreme Court barred the census from asking about citizenship a few months before the enumeration began, the specter still loomed.
—Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
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However, the state ranks 34th in the country for total enumeration.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2021
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This would be a powerfully strange scene at the best of times, and a reminder of the Borgesian comic potential of brute enumeration.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
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Ninth amendment: Clarifies that the enumeration of rights in the constitution does not deny the rights retained by the people.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
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The bureau then switched to mailing households enumeration forms, and today citizens can fill out the census online, by phone, or by mail.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
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The Census Bureau is required by law to report a count to the president on Dec. 31 and had originally planned to stop enumeration on July 31.
—Mackenzie Belley, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
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Notice FDR’s painstaking enumeration of the elements of his program, and his puncturing of his opponents’ sophistry.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
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The law requires that apportionment numbers be based on an actual enumeration of people living in a state, not estimates.
—Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2020
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Digital copies of the enumeration district maps will be available upon release but can also be found in the National Archives Catalog.
—Zachary Smith, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
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But Congress has given the Census Bureau carte blanche authority over the methods and manner to conduct the enumeration including its schedule.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
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The Constitution stipulates that each state must have at least one representative, and that the apportionment of other seats should be based on an enumeration of the population.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
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These discrepancies raise questions about the 2020 enumeration, especially given changes in how it was conducted.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
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Quite a few countries no longer perform a traditional enumeration, but instead maintain a live register of their entire population.
—Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
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Trying to count people living outdoors will be the toughest part of the homeless enumeration, said Beth Shinn, a professor at Vanderbilt University who researches homelessness.
—Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
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Then as of Oct 16 … the Bureau reported that Louisiana suddenly reached 99 percent enumeration.
—Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
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The special prosecutor’s sentencing memorandum is worth a look for its detailed enumeration of Donziger’s outrageous contempt for court orders.
—Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
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The number of possible combinations are beyond any reasonable method for enumeration, and thus algorithms alone can’t solve this problem efficiently.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2021
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When our data collection and analysis systems were established in the last century, no one foresaw the unimaginable amounts of information that could be used to validate and verify official enumeration.
—Julia Lane, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2020
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In 1787, the delegates who assembled in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution confronted complex questions of how to structure a national legislature and whether to ground representation in an enumeration of the population.
—Kate Masur, CNN, 7 May 2021
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Examples include enumeration of threats and corresponding impacts, analysis of threat actors and their intentions and prioritized mitigations.
—Altaz Valani, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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