numbering

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The move is also expected to increase capacity, a growing consideration as the academy’s ranks have expanded significantly in recent years, now numbering more than 11,000 members.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Even membership in the UAW, once numbering 1.5 million, is now under 400,000 and falling, and more than a quarter of its current members work in academia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Outer coast transients, numbering about 210 animals, were most often found within 20 kilometers of the continental shelf break, particularly near submarine canyons.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025

The South Georgia population is much larger -- numbering in the hundreds of thousands -- so is likely to be more resilient, he said.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Studies show that measles is likely to die out in any human population numbering fewer than half a million people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond