How to Use decennial in a Sentence

decennial

adjective
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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
  • But as its name suggests, the decennial census is conducted every ten years.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This is the first decennial census in which most participants are being encouraged to fill out the form online.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • This year’s decennial count will be the first one conducted primarily online.
    — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Along with the decennial census, an economic census and census of governments is conducted every five years.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
  • What’s unique about the decennial census in the United States?
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 state lost a congressional seat in the previous decennial census as well.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Of course, the decennial census population counts aren’t perfect even in an ordinary year — and last year was anything but.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021
  • With the recent decennial census, all 18 County Board seats are up for election in November.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to change the way the decennial census is carried out and how its data is used.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The 2020 decennial census − the once-a-decade count of all people in the U.S. − showed that Michigan experienced the second-slowest population growth of all states over the previous decade.
    — Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
  • The 2020 decennial census — the once-a-decade count of all people in the U.S. — showed that Michigan experienced the second-slowest population growth in the nation over the previous decade.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
  • But of all the opportunities to do his dirty work, the two best are the decennial redistricting process and the biennial leadership races.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Bradfield Farms demographic data is from the 2020 decennial census for the census block group that contains the neighborhood.
    — Ella Koeze, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023

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