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as in to contain
to be made up of
the mall comprises three department stores and 80 smaller shops selling specialized goods
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as in to constitute
to be all the substance of
at the time, about 100,000 fighting men and women comprised our military force in that country
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Recent Examples of comprise
The president of the European Council, comprised of member states’ governments, defended his decision to open diplomatic communications with the Kremlin after the leaders of France and Germany criticized the decision.
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Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 19 June 2026
The former capsule reinterprets dressy denim and casual linen pieces, including blazers and field jackets, while the latter comprises T-shirts, sweatpants and shorts, as well as an ultralight sneaker.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 June 2026
Arabs and Jews are treated in the same hospitals (in the same wards and rooms) by medical staff comprised of Arabs and Jews.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s faithful — who comprised the vocal majority amidst the full house for Thursday’s 4-1 Group B loss to Switzerland at SoFi Stadium — are seeing manager Sergej Barbarez pull the same improbable stunt.
—Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 19 June 2026
The former capsule reinterprets dressy denim and casual linen pieces, including blazers and field jackets, while the latter comprises T-shirts, sweatpants and shorts, as well as an ultralight sneaker.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 June 2026
Arabs and Jews are treated in the same hospitals (in the same wards and rooms) by medical staff comprised of Arabs and Jews.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s faithful — who comprised the vocal majority amidst the full house for Thursday’s 4-1 Group B loss to Switzerland at SoFi Stadium — are seeing manager Sergej Barbarez pull the same improbable stunt.
—Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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Firefighters, meanwhile, quickly contained the blaze to a 10-by-10-foot area.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
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Each kit contains five breakfasts and five lunches.—
Joshua Cole,
CBS News,
24 June 2026
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Nothing herein constitutes personalized investment advice.—
Julia Bartak,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
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Those emails did not constitute a formal invitation to meet and confer about potential changes at the LAPD, the union said.—
Los Angeles City Hall,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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Hired for four years at a salary of $440,000, Carvalho quickly adopted a strategic plan that included detailed, regular review of a school’s test scores — from both the annual state tests and periodic district assessments.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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That has caused several groups to propose their own ways to fix the program, including a Washington think tank whose paper proposed capping annual Social Security benefits at $100,000 to shore up the retirement trust fund.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
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It’s composed largely of her brilliant, almost painfully intimate essays, originally published in The New Yorker, about the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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Once composed of 50,000 personnel, KFOR has been routinely scaled back over the years as tensions eased, although 1,000 additional troops were deployed in 2023 after fresh violence erupted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
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Your 11th House of Friends tilts against routines as the instinctive Moon forms a quincunx to passionate Mars in your 6th House of Work.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
23 June 2026
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In Darwin’s day, of course, the processes by which gametes are formed and then fused had yet to be discovered.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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“Comprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprise. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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