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Six example sentences with census, each labelled with its topic.
Retailers redraw store locations every decade because the census reveals which suburbs gained families and which quietly emptied.
Economics
Seats in the lower house shift after each census, so undercounted districts lose influence for a full decade.
Politics
Ecologists borrowed the method for their own census of nesting terns, walking every dune on the same weekend.
Science
William's officials compiled a census of England in 1086, recording every mill, plough team, and pig in the kingdom.
History
The 1890 census was tallied on punched cards, and the machine that read them grew into a famous computing company.
Technology
The constitution requires a census every ten years, and courts have ruled that estimates cannot replace an actual count.
Law
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