a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added
a thorough census of all the grizzly bears living within the national park
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Recent Examples of censusIn 2000, the designer Sylvia Harris helped revise the U.S. census to be more accessible and comprehensible, leading to a 2 percent higher participation rate compared with the 1990 census.—Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025 The nonprofit in charge of San Diego County’s annual homelessness census has flagged two dozen people included in El Cajon’s tally who were actually outside city limits and acknowledged the possibility that other individuals were counted twice.—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025 Examples can be seen as small red patches all across this view of Chamaeleon I.
The most recent census of Chamaeleon I, by Penn State University astronomer Kevin Luhman in 2017, found about 50 new stars and brown dwarfs, bringing the total population of Chamaeleon I up to 226 members.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 June 2025 The city and state were running 28 migrant-exclusive facilities at the peak of arrivals in January of last year, according to city census data.—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for census
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