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noun

cohort

a group of people sharing a common characteristic within a defined time period

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Six example sentences with cohort, each labelled with its topic.

  • The study followed a cohort of two thousand nurses who all began night shifts in the same year.

    Medicine

  • Every founder in the spring cohort moved into the same building in March and demoed on the same Friday.

    Startups

  • Workers who entered the job market during the 2009 downturn form a cohort whose wages never fully caught up.

    Economics

  • Researchers tracked a cohort of children born in 1972 through fifty years of interviews about mood and memory.

    Psychology

  • The analytics tool groups users by signup month, and the January cohort still logs in twice as often as any other.

    Technology

  • The retailer compares each cohort of new customers by the month they joined to see how long they keep buying.

    Business

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