population
Example Sentences
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One of the most surprising findings is a large population of galaxies known as "blue monsters."
From Science Daily
Soon, she’ll be released back into the San Gabriel River, where she was found and where a population of her kind resides — in a stretch where salt and fresh water comingle.
From Los Angeles Times
Among detained persons as a whole, 90,000 is about 8 percent of the total prison population.
From Salon
The immigration decline was enough to tip the most-populous state, California, into a slight population loss, according to the census estimates.
The nation’s second-largest private employer went on a hiring spree during the pandemic, when a housebound population took more of its shopping online.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
