How to Use demographic in a Sentence
- The town's demographics suggest that the restaurant will do well there.
- The newspaper will be making some changes in order to adapt to the region's shifting demographics.
- The demographics of the disease are changing, and we are seeing much younger people being affected by it.
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To name a few reasons: Africa is home to the youngest demographic in the world.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2022 -
The unemployed in this demographic spent about the same amount of time on the work.
— Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 21 May 2021 -
Just two years ago, the show brought in a 7.7 rating in the demographic.
— Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021 -
One of the biggest changes has been the demographics of her shows.
— Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018 -
Those sales point to the changing demographic of the area.
— Hannah Selinger, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021 -
But over time, the city and its demographics have changed.
— Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 19 July 2018 -
That doesn’t mean people in this demographic don’t have the skills, or will, to run.
— Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2021 -
The race to keep up with the needs of this demographic is reflected across the country.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021 -
The demographics of the cities also played a role in the decision.
— Eric Levenson, CNN, 28 Oct. 2017 -
The target of the film is very clear and its demographic is not always well catered for.
— Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022 -
The term is borrowed from the study of demographics, where it is used to describe birthrates.
— Max Fisher, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020 -
Never mind the gross, the top 10, bottom 10, what's the rating, what's the demographic.
— Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024 -
People feel like me and Robert White have the same demographic.
— Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022 -
Every other age group trusts fintechs more, and the younger the demographic the wider the trust gap.
— Hossein Rahnama, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022 -
Many are in the prime under-44 demographic, and female.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022 -
But G.D.P. growth isn’t just about demographics and work force trends.
— Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016 -
So if that tends to attract maybe a younger demographic, perhaps that is the case.
— Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2022 -
Speak to your demographic, be real, find your sweet spot and stick with it.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 -
This is the eighth straight year in which at least one team has been led by a quarterback in that demographic.
— Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021 -
The warmth of these shows has also brought in a new demographic: children.
— Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022 -
With the growth, the demographics of the county also began to change, as did the politics.
— Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023 -
But as gamer demographics shift, some are working to change that from the inside.
— Laura Parker, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017 -
In 2024, Democrats can’t count on demographics alone to lift their fortunes.
— David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023 -
Those percents roughly match the demographics of the state.
— Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020 -
Granted, the target demographic was far more likely to be in a car seat than behind the wheel.
— Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020 -
But demographics are changing in the Valley, which could give Democrats a chance to pick up seats on the board — and win a majority for the first time in decades.
— Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Thinking from content outward is a good way to break out of narrow demographics.
— Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
- The demographic information shows that the population increased but the average income went down.
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Democrats want to change the demographic makeup of the courts.
— Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2023 -
That brings the pace of Democratic gains down to the slow crawl of demographic change.
— Nate Cohn, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016 -
And demographic trends suggest there will be a greater share of caregivers in the workplace in the years to come.
— Rhett Buttle, Fortune, 16 June 2020 -
In the report, there’s a full map of racial and demographic breakdown.
— Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022 -
But the jolt of Floyd’s death would in some ways cross demographic gulfs, experts say.
— Hannah Knowles, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021 -
This is still every bit the savvy act of demographic outreach the old records were.
— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021 -
What are your thoughts on the influx of this new demographic?
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019 -
The push to elevate Reyes comes at a time of demographic change, both in Cook County and on the high court.
— Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Our target demographic is 2 years old all the way up to 6 years old.
— Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019 -
Yet, the amount of the decline differs across demographic groups.
— Adam Fine, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2020 -
The long-term impact of Covid-19 on demographic trends looms large.
— Isabel Coles, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2022 -
Because of this demographic trough, there are now three times as many men in their 40s as in their 20s in Ukraine.
— Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 -
And huge demographic change has taken place across the area.
— Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Over time, the homes served a broad demographic spectrum.
— Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2023 -
But the game is going to be live streamed on Facebook, where that demographic rules.
— oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2019 -
The proportions of students in each demographic were about the same for the coming year as last year.
— James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023 -
But at one protest in Missouri, the calls for change were coming from a much younger demographic.
— Alicia Lee, CNN, 1 July 2020 -
Not every demographic group saw the same changes, the researchers found.
— Kate Sheridan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The biggest part of Utah’s spike is tied to a specific place and demographic.
— Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020 -
Most of our demographic is under 30 years old and even teenagers.
— Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 25 May 2018 -
That means a steady birthrate in a country facing a demographic plunge.
— Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 -
The impact of turnout and support over demographic shifts was even greater in the battleground states.
— Nate Cohn, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016 -
But among college students — by far the demographic who use the app the most — the reaction has been much more subdued.
— Monica Chin, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023 -
But demographic trends are putting a lid on potential growth from more hours of work.
— Neil Irwin, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018 -
The goal is to dig deeper than demographic statistics of deaths and circumstances and get to the why of what happened.
— Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023 -
But the demographic most likely to produce such a surge is now in a very different place.
— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021 -
But with which demographic groups is Biden losing the most support?
— Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2023 -
And before the week was over, Biden was reaching out to the same general demographic target.
— Ron Elving, NPR, 13 Apr. 2024 -
The game app asked participants to provide basic demographic data, and nearly four million worldwide did so.
— Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
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