population

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"The future of football is women and the people who don't credibly invest in them are missing out on expanding fandom in 50% of the population," he stresses.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Core to that agreement is that the public be left with adequate access to food and water, and there can be no strikes to starve the population or force the displacement of civilians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Lee and his colleagues used data from the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a long-running health survey of the United States population.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Shohreh Farzan is an associate professor of population and public health at USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“Living in a small town like ours, it’s hard to imagine that many people. Even Denver’s population is only a fraction of that.”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman