populations

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“People at the top spoke a different language, often Latin, and populations would speak local vernaculars, which were not standardized.”

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2026

Gannet populations at two of the world's largest colonies are not expected to recover from the impact of 2022's bird flu outbreak for almost two decades.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

The results revealed no significant correlation between activity in the two cell populations.

From Science Daily • Jul. 1, 2026

The Wall Street Journal used city populations reported by the Census Bureau for each census from 1790 to 2020 and the bureau’s city population estimates for 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Another is that the Indigenous populations were decimated by diseases brought by the Europeans such as smallpox and diphtheria.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz