population

Example Sentences

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In 2032, about one-fifth of the population, or about 72 million people, will be receiving benefits from Social Security, Dahl said.

From MarketWatch

We serve roughly 90% of the U.S. population each year, and we continue to deliver value as people try to make their budgets stretch a little further.

From The Wall Street Journal

Monday’s item on the booming deer population in Massachusetts and the movement to allow hunting on Sundays has inspired poetry from a longtime reader:

From The Wall Street Journal

U.S. troops in Iraq believed they would be greeted as liberators because 80% of the population disliked Saddam Hussein’s regime, Mansoor said.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the U.S. alone, that number was 135,000 people, roughly the population of Dayton, Ohio.

From Salon