enumeration

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They held six caste censuses between 1871 and 1931 - the last full caste enumeration in India.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

We have better statistical models at our disposal now, better things we can use to get a more accurate enumeration of the population.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024

Emmy Thelander, an artist and adjunct professor at City University of New York, said it wasn’t the job’s requirements but their obsessive enumeration that was hardest to swallow.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

There are moments when his detailed enumeration of geographic calamities reads like David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth,” while some of the procedural stuff comes across like a forward-projected version of Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison