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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
At the same time, an additional 23 ranks comprising 1,403 pipes were added.
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
Conversely, the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio, which comprises a selection of 30 stocks, has a history of comfortably outperforming the S&P 500 over the last four-year span.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Nvidia, which says its computers and chips comprise about 70% of the total budget for an AI data center, climbed 4%.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The ingredients listed first comprise the most significant portion of the product, while those listed later are present in smaller amounts.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
Conversely, the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio, which comprises a selection of 30 stocks, has a history of comfortably outperforming the S&P 500 over the last four-year span.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Nvidia, which says its computers and chips comprise about 70% of the total budget for an AI data center, climbed 4%.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The ingredients listed first comprise the most significant portion of the product, while those listed later are present in smaller amounts.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement The panel has already obtained roughly 33,000 pages of records from the Justice Department, though Democrats have complained those disclosures contained little new information.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Eventually, the Nepali army was deployed to contain the situation.—
Rajeev Tyagi,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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But what constitutes relationship strength?—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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And October’s jobs numbers, reported just days before the election, constituted the worst month for jobs since the pandemic.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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An audio jack is also included.—
Jorge Jimenez,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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At its Awe-Dropping Event in Cupertino, Apple announced four new iPhones, including the iPhone 17, iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro series.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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While the designer version was composed entirely of cotton, these are 70 percent cotton and 30 percent polyester.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Displayed in the same first-floor gallery, Because (2018) comprises artworks composed of photographs in wooden frames under a curtain embroidered with a phrase explaining what triggered her photographic act.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Only one storm has formed into a major hurricane.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Mistral, one of Europe’s most competitive tech startups and widely seen as a regional rival of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, has been building large language models that form the foundation of AI applications, such as chatbots.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Comprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprise. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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