How to Use subpopulation in a Sentence

subpopulation

noun
  • The subpopulation of bears in the area is already among the most threatened of any in the world.
    — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But only a few of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears are growing.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • There are three subpopulations of youth consumers of drugs that may lead to OD behavior.
    — Dr. Yifrah Kaminer, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There are thought to be about 900 animals in the subpopulation.
    — Henry Fountain New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • One is that the killer whales have invented a new fad, something that subpopulations of these members of the dolphin family are known to do.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • This algorithm won’t identify a species it wasn’t trained on or any subpopulations of species that differ too much from the example.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
  • Debt relief was even found to have a small but significant negative effect on the mental health of certain subpopulations in the study.
    — Katherine Hempstead, STAT, 7 June 2024
  • In other words, people in one subpopulation would have to work significantly harder to achieve the same outcome.
    — Karthik Kannan, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The three migrated about 150 miles to the Swedish subpopulation.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Polar bears, which occur in 19 subpopulations throughout the Arctic, rely on sea ice to hunt for seals.
    — Tammy Webber, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The animals have enough space and are not split into unsustainable subpopulations.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Amid the destruction of species across much of Africa, some subpopulations have nevertheless thrived in certain areas.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • Four of the subpopulations are declining, five are relatively stable, and only one is growing.
    — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2017
  • They are awarded based on student and subpopulation scores in state or nationally normed assessments, as well as graduation rates.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • McInnes and the team believes that these outer coast whales are a distinct subpopulation that has developed these hunting techniques in such a deep water habitat.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In the years after the spill, 15 whales either went missing or were found dead, all but dooming a genetically distinct subpopulation.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
  • This has confined many panda subpopulations to isolated patches of habitat carved by roads, railways, dams and farms, cutting them off from new bamboo forests and potential mates.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The survival rate of the largest caribou subpopulation increased enough to stabilize in the hunting area, but continued to plummet in the area where hunting was not allowed to increase.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Although such changes in a subpopulation sometimes herald a new species in the process of developing, both Pirotta and Lang say that’s likely not the case with these gray whales.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
  • There are twenty subpopulations of polar bears; the ones caught near Ittoqqortoormiit are thought to be the most severely affected.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • For analysis of specific subpopulations, the margins of error were typically in the area of 4%.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But almost from the time of their discovery, scientists have noted that subpopulations of these NK cells reside full time in the liver, skin, kidney and uterus.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The subpopulation of orcas in this region began harassing boats, most often by biting at their rudder, in 2020.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • Maybe there is a subpopulation of FRBs that are associated with older systems.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In 2013 the Institute of Medicine set out a research agenda to figure out why people buy guns, and what subpopulations own them.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The boxes span the 1st to 3rd quartile in ancestry within each subpopulation from each respective ancestral group (the whiskers represent the ranges).
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2010
  • The Arctic refuge is an important denning area for the Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation of polar bears, one of the most threatened in the world.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The Iberian orca is a subpopulation of the Atlantic orca population.
    — USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • In order to provide the highest quality care for these especially vulnerable subpopulations, discharge planning and use of resources in and out of the hospital must be tailored to their unique needs.
    — Julia Hinkle, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The strait, which is bordered by Morocco to the south and by Spain to the north, is home to a distinct—and critically endangered—subpopulation of fewer than 50 orcas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024

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