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
His abiding grievance punctuates this enumeration of parental failures, and the concluding oath gives the accusation a legal force.
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Literary Hub, 5 May 2025
The text was pretty simple: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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
This method, known as an enumeration attack, leads to $1.1 billion in fraud losses annually, comprising a significant share of overall global losses due to fraud, according to Visa.
—Sheila Chiang, CNBC, 26 July 2024
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Literary Hub, 5 May 2025
The text was pretty simple: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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
This method, known as an enumeration attack, leads to $1.1 billion in fraud losses annually, comprising a significant share of overall global losses due to fraud, according to Visa.
—Sheila Chiang, CNBC, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enumeration
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Keeping a running list of today’s duties could also help everyone focus on what matters.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Joe Thornton is first and third on the list with 114 points in 2006-07 and 96 in 2007-08, respectively, and Erik Karlsson is second with 101 points in 2022-23.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
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All listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2026
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The order remains in place indefinitely while the case moves through the State Office of Administrative Hearings, according to the agency’s disciplinary listing.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
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Cook’s stores don’t often receive an inventory list or any digital information on the liquidation products.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Netflix was sitting on a surplus of As Ever products, including tea and baking mixes, totaling more than $10 million in value (so much so that the company started giving inventory to employees for free, putting the goods on card tables in various office buildings.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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Venezuela is in the World Baseball Classic final for the first time in six iterations of the tournament, only ever making it to the semifinal once prior to this year — in 2009.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2026
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Blonde was also the name of the game that evening for starlets like Nikki Glaser, Amelia Dimoldenberg, and Alix Earle, who embraced the color’s multitude of iterations — from strawberry to honey — while surprising fans with beauty refreshes to match their jaw-dropping gowns.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Enumeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enumeration. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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