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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  • Surveillance video recovered by the Daily News shows a scrap collector finding the black cloth case used to hold a musical instrument that contained Owusu’s body.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Prosecutors said the bag also contained two white envelopes stuffed with $15,000 in cash — the remainder of Meiser’s payment.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
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  • The movie’s essence is Chaucerian; the pacing is taut, jaunty, like a fairy tale, helped along by a twinkling score composed by Anna Meredith.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Horror filmmaker Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) directs, and Ilan Eshkeri (Audible’s 1984, Netflix’s House of Guinness) composed the score.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
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  • The search included both town’s police and dive teams as well as drone and canine teams along the shoreline.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Del Casher, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the wah-wah pedal, has died at the age of 88.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
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  • For example, in April, former FBI director James Comey was indicted for posting a photo of seashells on a beach that the Department of Justice said constituted a death threat against the president.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The students challenge that interpretation, contending that the university has not established that their individual statements constituted legally unprotected threats or caused the level of disruption required to justify punishment.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
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  • During the first lithium plating, a three-dimensional textured region containing tin and lithium-tin formed within the interlayer.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Originally cast in 2023 as a contestant for the K-pop reality show that formed Katseye, she was booted out early partly because—despite becoming a fan favorite in Netflix’s subsequent docuseries—the judges sensed she was destined for solo stardom.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026

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“Comprised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprised. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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