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population

[pop-yuh-lay-shuhn] / ˌpΙ’p jΙ™ΛˆleΙͺ ΚƒΙ™n /


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The health board's own data suggests death rates at the hospital are lower than similar hospitals in Wales, taking into account the nature of the population and the severity of cases.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

We used to be told that anti-ballistic-missile systems would lead to nuclear war and that world population growth would cause mass starvation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

However, when researchers compared blood pressure changes across the entire study population, they found no statistically significant difference between patients receiving active stimulation and those using the sham device.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The population of the district is one of the youngest in the country, Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd, and Gen Z and millennial voters are expected to play a pivotal role.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

And Jews were being rounded up and separated from the rest of the population.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

This provided a much more detailed picture of the different cancer cell populations living within the same tumor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Today, Canada's lobsters are "doing better," Brady told AFP, because while temperature increases in Maine waters are stressing lobster populations, "that's not the case up in Canada."

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Merck, which partially funded that study, said the two trials are in different patient populations and can’t be compared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Other analysts also questioned whether comparing studies with different patient populations is fair game.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

In the natural world, variations in genotype exist in wild populations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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