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as in contains
to be made up of
the mall comprises three department stores and 80 smaller shops selling specialized goods
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as in constitutes
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 comprises
The collection comprises apparel and accessories.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Cast comprises Hanad Abdi (Little America), Elmi Rashid Elmi (The Swimmers), Saman Hasan (Ramadan America) and Muna Abdulahi (The Mole).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 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
The industry comprises an aging workforce –– many, like 78-year-old Leung Siu Wai, among the dozens of senior bamboo scaffold workers paying respects to Lo Pan, are close to retirement.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The signs are symbolic representations of those constellations, and each one comprises 30 degrees of the celestial longitude of the ecliptic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Senate District 16 comprises the central part of Saline County, including Benton and Bryant, and western Pulaski County, including part of west Little Rock.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025
The next pronounced spike came in the mid-1960s — roughly around the time of England’s World Cup win on home soil, and comprises largely those who would play a major role in England’s Euro 96 campaign.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Cast comprises Hanad Abdi (Little America), Elmi Rashid Elmi (The Swimmers), Saman Hasan (Ramadan America) and Muna Abdulahi (The Mole).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 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
The industry comprises an aging workforce –– many, like 78-year-old Leung Siu Wai, among the dozens of senior bamboo scaffold workers paying respects to Lo Pan, are close to retirement.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The signs are symbolic representations of those constellations, and each one comprises 30 degrees of the celestial longitude of the ecliptic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Senate District 16 comprises the central part of Saline County, including Benton and Bryant, and western Pulaski County, including part of west Little Rock.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025
The next pronounced spike came in the mid-1960s — roughly around the time of England’s World Cup win on home soil, and comprises largely those who would play a major role in England’s Euro 96 campaign.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprises
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The First 70 Years contains impeccable research and analysis, accompanied by fascinating photos of the sets, film crews, and casts.—
Michael Taube,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The system contains unverified reports of side effects, including from patients, doctors and pharmacists.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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Republicans, however, have pushed back on the idea that getting people fired for their Kirk posts constitutes cancel culture.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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But there’s also a useful ambiguity inherent in our current understanding of what constitutes a TV Movie.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
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Army soldiers, even those in non-combat jobs or those who lack previous firearms experience, must pass a rifle marksmanship test that includes targets as far as 325 yards away after mere days of training.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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That includes one conference game.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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Who composes a symphony with a hammer?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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Genji visits these woods before his exile to Suma and composes a poem wishing that the forest might one day see the injustice against him reversed.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Comprises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprises. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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