comprised

past tense of comprise
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as in contained
to be made up of the mall comprises three department stores and 80 smaller shops selling specialized goods

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as in composed
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 comprised Introduced in 2018, the V12 Vantage V600 comprised seven coupes and seven convertibles in total. — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2026 The active management area comprised about 326,000 acre-feet in 2024, most of which was slated for residential use. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026 So, fellow Chicagoans, fasten your seatbelts and prepare for the wildest, most unnerving rollercoaster ride of the four budget cycles that have comprised the city’s Brandon Johnson Experience. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Sophie, mom Annie and her great-aunt comprised The 3 Suckers — a play on the small side shoots that can stunt the growth of healthy leaves. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 The package is comprised by 14 films, three telenovelas and a series. — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026 These included Villa Viesca, the former summer home of Salvatore and Wanda Ferragamo, and Dimora Ghirlandaio, a resort in Tuscany, both of which comprised the villas where the American envoy stays during the summit. — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 Data on the individual market — which is comprised mostly of ACA plans — suggests enrollment fell 16 percent as of March and 18 percent as of June, KFF found. — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026 The 2026 Narrative, Animated and Documentary Shorts jury comprised Daniel Crooke, Max Geschwind and Laura Henneman. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
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  • Smith, White and Duran were arrested after a search of the box allegedly revealed 10 kilograms of cocaine, and a search of the shopping bag allegedly contained more than $170,000 in cash.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The team’s melting models matched the rock’s chemistry best when its mantle source contained garnet, a mineral that is stable in the Martian mantle only at depths of more than 160 kilometers.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • Soundtracks often work in a similar way—music that’s been composed with the idea of accompaniment, melodies that are meant to join with a story already can work perfectly when one is in the midst of creating a character or scene.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Alaska’s core constituency is composed of Natives, fishermen, rural legislators, and unions, with some chamber-of-commerce types mixed in.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • The sides were also spectacular and included a smattering of traditional favorites like creamed spinach and truffle mac and cheese.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Few farms are affected by the tax, which already included some exemptions for agriculture.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
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  • One of the weirder aspects of the telecom industry, as it’s constituted in the United States right now, is that cell carriers own some of their towers and operate some of their towers.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • Kiwanuka wanted the music to be precise and well-formed, but still emanating that playful, stream-of-consciousness feeling.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Then, in 2007, researchers noted that spidroins engineered in the lab formed liquidlike globs.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026

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“Comprised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprised. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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