enumeration

Definition of enumerationnext
as in list
a long list of things one after another We were provided with an exhaustive enumeration of the inventory, ordered by amount currently on hand.

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Recent Examples of enumeration 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 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 The set of 10 developed as the standard enumeration in the Haggadah, the liturgical text of Passover, which was first compiled in the early centuries of the Common Era and redacted toward the end of the first millennium. Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for enumeration
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  • For years, Connecticut’s position atop the list of states with the priciest electric bills has served as an election-year mantra for Republicans and other critics of the state’s climate-conscious energy strategy.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Even more surprising is the list of prominent customers with delinquent accounts.
    Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • For example, according to TechSpot, Amazon integrated Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to match author information with product listings.
    Paul Deraval, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • At that scale, a US listing offers him dollar liquidity, index inclusion, and institutional capital the Nigerian Exchange can’t match.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Skypod robots move through the storage structure to retrieve inventory and bring it to operators at the picking stations, replacing much of the walking associated with traditional warehouse picking.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The Question Boards Should Keep Asking Technology will continue to change, which means today’s inventory of AI applications will inevitably become outdated.
    Simone Grimes, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • The shoes appears to be the lamb leather iteration, although the Italian label also produces the style in white silk satin.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This is someone who has seen so many iterations of you, and you of them.
    Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Enumeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enumeration. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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