enumerate
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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
“That process should look at their current risk tolerance and help enumerate their goals, both short and long term, which will help you and the adviser determine the appropriate mix of investments.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
He said he expected that standard would be applied in Iowa, even if state law does not specifically enumerate it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
When asked to enumerate or explain, he refused.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
A July 25 New York Times article enumerates these details.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
“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
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
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Several of these factors were enumerated this week by Arun Sundaram, senior vice president for investment strategy at CFRA.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Not everyone may share in the authors’ nostalgia for the period—and the voluminously enumerated attractions of the World’s Fair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
“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 also enumerated his contributions to the Black community and rejected the idea that he is “hiding” to evade legal consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
Hinted at the gravity of the so-called “trauma of decanting,” and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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It’s the small details, which we could be here all day enumerating, and the delivery, rather than the big concepts, that bring the show alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
I spent the remainder of the meeting enumerating complaints about our diet, work, and studying.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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