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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
An international force, comprised largely of troops from Arab and Muslim countries, would be responsible for security inside Gaza.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
The planning application comprised 3,000 pages of documents in 60 boxes.
—Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Album sales comprised 16,000 sales of the overall 102,000 total.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Of that sum, traditional album sales comprised 39,000, marking Nine Inch Nails’ biggest sales week since 2013.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
The second most common way professors used Claude was for academic research — this comprised 13% of conversations.
—Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
The Quartet comprised the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, and appointed Blair as its envoy in 2007 with the goal of helping to develop the Palestinian economy and institutions.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art historian Ceren Özpınar and curators Chus Martínez, Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, and Ulya Soley.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
O'Neill, Bowen, and Ferguson played the core of the titular extended family that comprised the cast of the series, which ran from 2009-2020.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
The planning application comprised 3,000 pages of documents in 60 boxes.
—Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Album sales comprised 16,000 sales of the overall 102,000 total.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Of that sum, traditional album sales comprised 39,000, marking Nine Inch Nails’ biggest sales week since 2013.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
The second most common way professors used Claude was for academic research — this comprised 13% of conversations.
—Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
The Quartet comprised the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, and appointed Blair as its envoy in 2007 with the goal of helping to develop the Palestinian economy and institutions.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art historian Ceren Özpınar and curators Chus Martínez, Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, and Ulya Soley.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
O'Neill, Bowen, and Ferguson played the core of the titular extended family that comprised the cast of the series, which ran from 2009-2020.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprised
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The electrolyte surrounding the negative electrode contained glucose and active riboflavin, while the positive side used either potassium ferricyanide or oxygen.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, British sportswear brand Lonsdale’s blocky logo on T-shirts unintentionally contained a Nazi reference.—
Steve Salter,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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Just like last season, the D crew for this Leafs’ team is composed almost entirely of players who defend and defend hard, but who aren’t going to move things along much the other way.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, Saturn’s highly reflective and easily-visible rings, composed mostly of water-ice and arguably the planet’s most striking feature, are actively in the process of disappearing.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
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After the second inning, nine of Kirby’s final 15 hitters reached base, a stretch that included the homers by Giménez, Springer and Guerrero.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Readers of Karp’s letters are likely to encounter a cast of characters that has included Saint Augustine, Richard Nixon, French author Michel Houellebecq, and Samuel Huntington (a 20th century Harvard political scientist).—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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The indictment claims James' actions constituted intentional misrepresentation.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Most were white; the current crop of Revolutionary War reenactors might be whiter than the original Continental Army, of which Black and Native American soldiers are believed to have constituted as much as 15 percent by 1780.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Rockefeller family still owns a minority stake in the firm, having rolled over some of their equity from their former family office into Rockefeller when it was formed in 2018 with only $18 billion in assets.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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This suggests that the materials that originally formed the proto-Earth are yet to be discovered, meaning that the current meteorite inventory is incomplete.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Comprised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprised. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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