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population

noun as in inhabitants of a place

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Because body composition, eating patterns, and health behaviors differ around the world, the authors emphasized the need to understand how these drugs work in more diverse populations.

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Foreign-born residents now make up close to 10% of Chile’s population, one of the highest levels in Latin America, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died at the site were Jews.

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The failure to plan for growing urban populations’ water needs has created new problems.

If Spanish officials had little direct connection to the Nazi Holocaust, Kaufman argues, that was because the entire Jewish population had been expelled from Spain in the 15th century.

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