How to Use decennial in a Sentence

decennial

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• During the days of the Raj, the decennial censuses gave it a new contour.
  — Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
• What’s unique about the decennial census in the United States?
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
• The trial is to prepare for the next decennial census in March 2020.
  — Youyou Zhou, Quartz Africa, 18 June 2019
• The Time Pyramid in Bavaria, Germany will add its fourth decennial block in 2023.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2020
• The redistricting process — which is meant to be a decennial process — will drag on past this midterm.
  — Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• Among the most pressing issues the high court is expected to tackle by the end of the year center on the decennial count of people living in the U.S.
  — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2020
• The Census Bureau is due to release the first detailed results of the decennial count in mid-August.
  — WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
• That question hasn't been asked in a decennial census since 1950.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• This month is especially weak at this point in the election year cycle and in the decennial cycle.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• The administration had sought to add the question to the decennial census form.
  — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
• The pandemic has upended the timeline for the massive decennial effort to count everyone living in the United States and there is a lot on the line.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2020
• For the 2020 census, the bureau mailed postcards with a special code to every household in the country inviting them to fill out the decennial census online.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2020
• The relationship data the decennial census collects can be used in a number of ways, the spokesperson added.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2018
• Highland Park lost 16% of its housing stock in the last decade, while the occupancy rate held steady at 76% between the decennial counts, census data shows.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2021
• The decennial Census aims to count everyone living in the United States once every 10 years.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2020
• States redraw their legislative maps every ten years to keep up with the decennial census.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2018
• The government has counted 91 million households, or 62% of those in the U.S., since the bulk of the decennial population tally got under way in March.
  — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 8 July 2020
• In 2005, the ACS replaced an extended version of the decennial census.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 16 Sep. 2019
• As part of the 2020 decennial census, U.S. census workers went door-to-door to check whether anybody is currently living at every home in the country.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• When Bouk was doing his research, 1940 was the most recent decennial census for which full data was available.
  — Karen Sandstrom, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• In the run-up to the 2020 census, the government has embraced technology as never before, hoping to halt the ballooning cost of the decennial head count.
  — Chris Hamby, New York Times, 3 July 2019
• We were told that this was a historic moment—the first time that a decennial census NRFU count would be carried out entirely by smartphone.
  — Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The decennial pattern, for example, was identified with decades of hindsight, and drops of 10% or more aren’t all that uncommon.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• The state lost a congressional seat in the previous decennial census as well.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• This is the first decennial census in which most participants are being encouraged to fill out the form online.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
• The board is tasked with the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative boundaries in Arkansas after the decennial census.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• The nation’s population grew just 7.4% during the decade, the second slowest on record for a decennial census.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
• That's the date the U.S. Census Bureau uses to determine where people are living when they're counted for the decennial census.
  — David Showers, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2021
• But as its name suggests, the decennial census is conducted every ten years.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
• The decennial count determines each state's share of House representatives and electoral college votes.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024