Thesaurus results for COMPRISING

comprising

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present participle of comprise

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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as in constituting

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 comprising The jury members, comprising eight men and four women, took their place in Courtroom 3 of Southwark Crown Court for the first time. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 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 The collection introduces the first formal suit for boys, comprising a relaxed-fit five-pocket pant and a Western-style blazer. — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 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 In 1492, Columbus and his expeditionary crew, comprising three ships, landed in the Bahamas as part of a voyage approved by the Spanish monarchy. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 The following month, the league approved the Dream’s sale to an ownership group comprising Larry Gottesdiener, Suzanne Abair and former Dream guard Renee Montgomery. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 National Historical Park comprising his birth home, a peaceful rose garden, and the King Center. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 Burberry check Meanwhile, in the 1920s Burberry introduced its signature check, comprising interlocking black, white, and red lines on a tan ground, as a lining for its coats. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

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Instead of exchanging the entire print head, the K3 swaps a smaller assembly containing the nozzle, hotend and filament path.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
An anonymous security engineer on OpenAI’s agent security team argued in a recent post that containing models had become too complex.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 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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The Justice Department has charged about 90 people for various types of election misconduct so far this year, including 50 who are said to have voted as noncitizens.

— SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
In addition to women’s lifestyle apparel, the brand does kidswear and home, including a bedding assortment and such tabletop items as napkins, tablecloths, runners and place mats.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 15 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

Definition of composing

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As a result, after each election, leaders of the larger parties seek to persuade smaller parties to join them in forming a governing coalition.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
The work trucks continued on, but much of the Border Patrol force remained, forming a semicircle around the camp with Mexican state police closing the loop on the other side of the line.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026

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