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enumerate

[ih-noo-muh-reyt, ih-nyoo-] / ɪˈnu məˌreɪt, ɪˈnju- /


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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 reasons why that happened are nearly too obvious and too depressing to enumerate.

From Salon Feb. 22, 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

As Gosling recalled, “Rosalind let rip in her best pedagogical style: ‘you’re wrong for the following reasons’...which she proceeded to enumerate as she demolished their proposal.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 viewer never assumes for a moment that any of this is in her head, even as the narration enumerates the psychic effects of long-term sleep deprivation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2023

In her analysis of the band's roots, for instance, Jones enumerates the bluesmen, both credited and uncredited, who influenced the Stones' sound.

From Salon Aug. 1, 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

Several of these factors were enumerated this week by Arun Sundaram, senior vice president for investment strategy at CFRA.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

Once the lender got around to a physical check to count cattle and value McClain’s collateral—the first full inspection after more than four years of sending him money—it enumerated only 8,916 animals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 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

He began to pass out sheets of paper with enumerated lists on them.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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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