adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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After the wet dark days, the country seems more populous .
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The candidates have devoted far more time here than in much more populous states.
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The hill country had once been far more populous .
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There is no indication that the same is occurring in the world's most populous countries.
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The report breaks out statistics from 11 of the most populous states.
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The most populous state, California, has nearly fifty representatives while the smallest states have only one.
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Clinton won a total of 28 of the 36 Democratic contests, including those in the 10 most populous states.
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In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state.
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Bucharest, the capital and the most populous constituency, was assigned 39 Assembly seats and 14 Senate seats.
■ NOUN
country
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There is no indication that the same is occurring in the world's most populous countries .
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The most populous state , California, has nearly fifty representatives while the smallest states have only one.
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The report breaks out statistics from 11 of the most populous states .
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Clinton won a total of 28 of the 36 Democratic contests, including those in the 10 most populous states .
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And among the nine most populous states , only Florida remains in Democratic hands.
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In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state .
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The candidates have devoted far more time here than in much more populous states .
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In California, our most populous state , this has been the key fact of recent political history.
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Texas supplanted New York as the nation's second-most-populous state .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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China is the most populous country in the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the centre of a miniature shire, Oakham was neither populous nor wealthy.
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It was London where the railway suburbs were numerically the largest and most populous with regular commuters.
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The forest was populous with them.
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The North was a populous , bustling, commercial place, its economy geared to industrial growth.
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Was it right that tiny Delaware should have as many representatives as populous Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts?