How to Use enumeration in a Sentence

enumeration

noun
  • The bureau also offered no way to compare its new enumeration rate with numbers a decade ago.
    — Theresa Diffendal, The Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The bureau also offered no way to compare its new enumeration rate with numbers a decade ago.
    — USA Today, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The logic of enumeration, pushed to its extreme, becomes an algorithm of the absurd.
    — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The bureau then switched to mailing households enumeration forms, and today citizens can fill out the census online, by phone, or by mail.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • However, the state ranks 34th in the country for total enumeration.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • This would be a powerfully strange scene at the best of times, and a reminder of the Borgesian comic potential of brute enumeration.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Michigan recently released a request for proposals to undertake a new enumeration study this year.
    — Alexis J. Handal, The Conversation, 15 July 2024
  • The law requires that apportionment numbers be based on an actual enumeration of people living in a state, not estimates.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2020
  • No one needs an enumeration of all the positive effects of exercise, on health, on social connections, on self-esteem, or otherwise.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Although the Supreme Court barred the census from asking about citizenship a few months before the enumeration began, the specter still loomed.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • First, attackers might well look for more powerful and efficient ways of abusing the contact import feature through phone number enumeration attacks.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Quite a few countries no longer perform a traditional enumeration, but instead maintain a live register of their entire population.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Females, minors &c are excluded from the polls, but are included in the enumeration of persons on whom representation is apportioned.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The number of possible combinations are beyond any reasonable method for enumeration, and thus algorithms alone can’t solve this problem efficiently.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Digital copies of the enumeration district maps will be available upon release but can also be found in the National Archives Catalog.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Constitution stipulates that each state must have at least one representative, and that the apportionment of other seats should be based on an enumeration of the population.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The country may seem awfully powerful, in static enumerations of economic or military mass, but applied power—actual power out in the world—is something quite different.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The special prosecutor’s sentencing memorandum is worth a look for its detailed enumeration of Donziger’s outrageous contempt for court orders.
    — Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • These discrepancies raise questions about the 2020 enumeration, especially given changes in how it was conducted.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Each transaction is assigned a real-time risk score that helps detect and prevent enumeration attacks in transactions where a purchase is processed remotely without a physical card via a card reader or terminal.
    — Sheila Chiang, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • But Congress has given the Census Bureau carte blanche authority over the methods and manner to conduct the enumeration including its schedule.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The funding is for demarcating enumeration areas, with the demarcation scheduled to be completed in 2021.
    — Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, Quartz Africa, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Supreme Court has long since stopped enforcing the Founders’ intention that the federal government be limited by the enumeration of Congress’s powers.
    — George F. Will, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • When our data collection and analysis systems were established in the last century, no one foresaw the unimaginable amounts of information that could be used to validate and verify official enumeration.
    — Julia Lane, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The allocation of federal resources and funding depends on a complete enumeration of AAPI communities.
    — Aida Ylanan, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Then as of Oct 16 … the Bureau reported that Louisiana suddenly reached 99 percent enumeration.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Anything that was anti-Jewish—a story about exclusion, an obstacle that hadn’t come down, a disapproving enumeration of supposedly Jewish traits—was possibly more fascinating.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Mitre describes a type confusion vulnerability, also known as common weakness enumeration 843, as occurring when a resource such as a pointer or object is accessed by a resource using an incompatible type.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Trying to count people living outdoors will be the toughest part of the homeless enumeration, said Beth Shinn, a professor at Vanderbilt University who researches homelessness.
    — Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020

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