In dressage competitions, horses follow a short sequence of bouncing walks and trots, pirouettes and figures-of-eight.
—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2026
And the number moved enough that the Census Bureau took the unusual step of declaring the old and new figures incomparable, creating a new time series from December 4, 2025, and filing the earlier data under historical.
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