Word Finder - cohort

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A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

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A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

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The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.

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Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.

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Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

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An accomplice; abettor; associate.

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He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.

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Any band or body of warriors.

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A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.

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A colleague.

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A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.

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To associate with such a group

Florus withdrew with all his troops, except one cohort, to Caesarea.

Claudius established here, as at Ostia, a cohort of vigiles as a fire-brigade.

Each cohort of our young are more technologically sophisticated than the previous year.

That compact was not, as has often been assumed, merely the means of assuring to Napoleon the mastery of the continent and the control of a cohort of kings.

Although the Uredineae clearly lead on to the Basidiomycetes, yet owing to their retaining in many cases definite traces of sexual organs they are clearly a more primitive group. Their marked parasitic habit also separates them off, so that they are best included with the Basidiomycetes in a larger cohort which may be called Basidiales.

For the past six years, she has followed from infancy a cohort of 20 children with tuberous sclerosis.

And as they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Her role on the hit series has won her praise as being compassionate, especially when her cohort, Cowell, blasts the candidates time and time again.

It is probably a poisonous plant, belonging, as it does, to a dangerous cohort.

These were (i) the command of an auxiliary cohort; (2) the tribunate of a legion; (3) the command of an auxiliary cavalry squadron, this order being as a rule strictly adhered to.

To each cohort, consisting of about moo men (chiefly freedmen), was entrusted the care of two of the fourteen city districts; one of its chief duties was that of a fire brigade.

A personal insult to Cassius Chaerea, tribune of a praetorian cohort, led to Caligula's assassination on the 24th of January 41.

He further made the cohort the military unit instead of the maniple, and his cavalry and light-armed troops were drawn from foreign countries, so that it may be said that Marius was the originator of the mercenary army.

The cohort on duty at the Palatine, which had accompanied the emperor, instantly deserted him; Galba, Piso and others were brutally murdered by the praetorians.

This year's budget is $17 million and the student cohort will be $15,000 - a growth achieved through graft and a little guile.

The report had also suggested that cohort studies were needed to assess causality.

A new US study gives good information about urinary and sexual function in a large population-based cohort of men [1] .

Smith comes from a much later generational cohort and stands in a different political tradition from Kiernan.

One hypothetical cohort was screened for cancer until a predetermined age, representing the base case.

This is a prospective cohort of persons aged 65 or older in 1982.

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Consequently, at the time of the visit some programs were new and still had not produced a graduating cohort.

Effective in improving had access to the HMO cohort.

For example, the birth cohort of 1900 refers to people born in that year.

An inception cohort of 1010 patients with RA attending rheumatology clinics was followed for a median of 11.4 years.

A pilot cohort of 356 adult diplomates was recruited the previous year and with whom panel recruitment and retention strategies have been developed.

Figure 1.15 shows the completed family size (or cumulative cohort fertility) by age for women born in selected years.

At the University's summer graduations, the first cohort of architecture students studying at the Belfast campus received their degrees.

Iowa health insurance lead cohort costs increased.

Sept 05 First cohort of 400 students required to use site as part of blended learning in English Literature 2A at University of Glasgow.

With this first follow-up of the cohort, the study became truly longitudinal.

This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970.

To assist in a respiratory function study in a new cohort of infants born extremely preterm.

These larvae mature then pupate to form the first cohort of worker ants.

Young people in the NCDS cohort were not asked about the timing of first sexual intercourse.

Subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys have been carried out.

They make him a citizen of Narbonne and captain of the first cohort under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian.

More ancient evidence is supplied by an inscription found at Aquinum, recording, so far as it has been deciphered, the dedication of an altar to Ceres by a Iunius Iuvenalis, tribune of the first cohort of Dalmatians, duumvir quinquennalis, and flamen Divi Vespasiani, a provincial magistrate whose functions corresponded to those of the censor at Rome.

For the past six years, she has followed from infancy a cohort of 20 children with Tuberous Sclerosis.

The cohort study was comprised of all children born in Denmark and thus should not be subject to selection bias.

Subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys have been carried out.

The 45-year trend in mortality was evaluated by computing crude and age-adjusted mortality rates, age-specific mortality rates, with birth cohort analysis.

As it turns out, Rich also claimed that Jared Ashley and cohort Chris Seiver attempted to blackmail Rich by promising to drop the assault and harassment charges if Rich forked over nearly three million dollars to them.

The Scutelliplantares include a much smaller number of forms, and, with the exception of the first " cohort " and a few groups of the fourth and fifth, all are peculiar to America.

The Deans had feared the long Colorado winter might slow down frisky Fred but, if anything, the opposite occurred, due in no small measure to his young pal and junk sale cohort, Martha Boyd.

On the right (N.) are some small well-preserved thermae, and the barracks of the firemen (vigiles), a special cohort of whom was stationed here.