enumerate
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Last year, the government announced a census to enumerate the country’s castes officially.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
"Many buildings were affected, but I cannot enumerate them now because we are busy with ongoing rescues."
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The Times requested the communications last month, and the report — which was meant to pinpoint failures and enumerate lessons learned, to avoid repeating mistakes — was issued in early October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
“That process should look at their current risk tolerance and help enumerate their goals, both short and long term, which will help you and the adviser determine the appropriate mix of investments.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
But at that moment of first doubt, they were a long way from being able to enumerate precisely why they felt the way they did.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge Numbers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“The hungry throng” that Lee-Mäder enumerates includes at least 40 insect species that “feed often or exclusively on North American milkweeds in the summer,” he writes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
The measure, which dictates how the 118th Congress operates, includes an addendum that enumerates other concessions that McCarthy agreed to.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023
In her new book, “Screaming on the Inside,” Grose enumerates the ways in which a broken system pushes mothers in particular past the breaking point, ruining their careers, their mental health and often their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
One page after Tanaina Plantlore enumerates the wild potato, it describes a closely related species, wild sweet pea, Hedysarum mackenzii.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Several of these factors were enumerated this week by Arun Sundaram, senior vice president for investment strategy at CFRA.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., enumerated some of the Democrats’ demands in the Senate earlier this week.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
“The Commission has not, to date, made a determination regarding whether any such contracts involve an activity enumerated or prohibited.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
The government of which they’re part is bound by laws, by a Constitution that is not only a document of enumerated laws but a mean, lean machine for preserving liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Which is next to a sign with enumerated instructions of what to do.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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Discovery announced additional details about its corporate split, saying the separate entities will be called Warner Bros. and Discovery Global and enumerating the properties that will fall under each separate company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
She quickly proved her worth to the family brand, sweetly selling her father-in-law’s every whim and enumerating the evil forces bent on taking him down.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
At the same time, “Some people are concerned that enumerating caste will solidify identities,” Jodhka says.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2024
The same can’t be said of Marvel itself, according to a recent Variety story enumerating the disarray in Marvel’s business suites where executives have lost the thread due to the MCU’s overextension.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
The method of enumerating the months and the years has changed much more over the intervening centuries than have the astrological niceties.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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