enumeration

Example Sentences

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He argues that endless enumeration cannot remedy a system built on hierarchy.

From BBC

We have better statistical models at our disposal now, better things we can use to get a more accurate enumeration of the population.

From Salon

Emmy Thelander, an artist and adjunct professor at City University of New York, said it wasn’t the job’s requirements but their obsessive enumeration that was hardest to swallow.

From New York Times

There are moments when his detailed enumeration of geographic calamities reads like David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth,” while some of the procedural stuff comes across like a forward-projected version of Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Ninth Amendment states that the “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

From Washington Post