census-taking
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Nearly half of today’s identified colonies were discovered in the last 15 years by Fretwell, who pioneered the science of penguin census-taking by satellite.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023
“After 200 years of census-taking and 30 census directors, I was the 31st director and the first woman, so that heightened my visibility a little,” she said in a 1993 oral history for the bureau.
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023
Strictly speaking, census-taking might have operated apart from these factors, but counting the populace has never been a simple math problem.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
The 2020 census streamlined that process by moving most of the form-filling from cumbersome paper surveys to the internet, and equipping census workers with iPhones and census-taking apps instead of clipboards and paper forms.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022
It was, perhaps, this primitive mode of census-taking which suggested to Darius the idea of his cairn.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
