population
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The 1,450-mile river is in peril, a water source for 40 million people in seven states that is beset by population growth and a warming climate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Glassdoor and Redfin’s report, which broke out metro areas by population size, ranked New Orleans, Palm Bay, Fla., and Wichita, Kan., as the top midsize metro areas for new grads.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Australia's vast coastline and small population have spurred a focus on developing large autonomous submarines and fighter jets, dubbed the Ghost Shark and Ghost Bat.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Lebanon, a tiny country measuring just 4,000 square miles on the eastern Mediterranean, has a population of around 5.8 million and officially recognises 18 religious sects.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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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