comprising

present participle of comprise
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as in containing
to be made up of the mall comprises three department stores and 80 smaller shops selling specialized goods

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Recent Examples of comprising The five-member group — promoting a four-member group comprising Yunah, Minju, Wonhee and Iroha — greeted fans, helped with a giveaway and posed for pictures inside the Melrose pop-up. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026 Behind the camera, Avani Rai shot about 130 people comprising ordinary Indians, dancers, models, and artisans, as well as her mother and actor Ranveer Singh against the streets of Old Delhi and its flower market and crowded alleyways. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026 Alpha also relies on a learning science team comprising subject-matter experts based globally, including licensed teachers, curriculum experts or specialists in early childhood education. — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The work involved the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation Program Office and an integrated test team comprising personnel from the Navy, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 In practice, that’s resulted in an evolving wealth of SKUs across bags, footwear, and ready-to-wear, comprising new releases and updates on brand heroes. — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 There’s still time to register for one of the three-day waves, each comprising a welcome dinner, the drive day, a judging dinner, and farewell brunch—all while the Boca Raton resort serves as our storied base of operations. — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026 The gallery’s New York flagship has been located on the Upper East Side since 2014, in a set of historic buildings comprising some 17,500 square feet that formerly housed the National Academy Museum. — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Oct. 2026 Geopolitical risk has been the main factor driving $100 oil this year, with shipping and insurance comprising more than a third of the price of the global crude benchmark. — Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • Chocolate in all forms — especially dark or baking chocolate — can be very dangerous for both cats and dogs, and sugar-free candies containing the sugar substitute xylitol can cause serious problems in pets.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Cyber recovery used to encompass containing damage and restoring operations to the last clean state.
    — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • The Danish Dogma25 projects are financed in a collaboration between Zentropa, DR, and Nordisk Film Distribution, with the addition of Netflix in the Nordics, constituting the core financing necessary to realize all five projects.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the new report to Congress, the figure for munitions was by far the largest, constituting well over half of all costs.
    — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
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  • Under the current plan, the building would include 696 rental apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units; three levels of amenities, including two swimming pools; 7,400 square feet of commercial space; and 696 parking spaces.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In a statement, district officials stated the cancellation was made considering sensitive themes in the musical, including an abusive relationship and romantic storylines, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
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  • Gash love composing songs whose intersecting lines set the entire mood of the song—jarring, dreamy, or nostalgic—in the style of art-house sampling.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Lyall pulled out his phone and began composing a message for Claude, the AI app from Anthropic.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2026
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  • Agent 12, for example, spent most of its time forming shapes such as a compass or a clock, and figures such as a butterfly or a sailboat.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
  • For a black artist like myself, forming and writing songs for a boy band is a form of code ditching, a way of seizing aesthetics and timbres that have been unduly withheld from my predecessors.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

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“Comprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprising. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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