population
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Aiello has monitored GPS-collared sheep — less than 10% of the population — to see how they’d respond to the razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Data centres could guzzle 9.32 trillion litres of water by 2030, enough to meet the annual basic water needs of the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, the report said.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
He argues that because of its population decline in recent years, the city has vacancies.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Roughly 40% of the state’s population is Hispanic.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
In general, then, there was a direct and nearly perfect correlation between demography and ideology—that is, between the ratio of blacks to whites in the population and the reluctance to consider abolition.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Human Geography - Middle School
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