consist (of)

as in to comprise
to be made up of those cookies consist of flour, butter, sugar, chocolate, and vanilla

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  • The largest debt portion comprises £525m in long-term bonds issued to US investors in September 2019, as part of a broader refinancing of £637m of stadium debt.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Women comprised just 42% of ChatGPT users between November 2022 and May 2024.
    Corinne Post, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • So Koester compiled a database that now contains more than 500,000 missing person searches dating back to the 1970s.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • In fact, some of his other works contain plenty of illustrations, especially for depicting species.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 2 May 2025
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  • The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, formed in 1967, is a private corporation that helps support hundreds of public media organizations, including radio and TV stations.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 May 2025
  • Agents and forensic experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recovered and analyzed key evidence from the Tesla attack, including Molotov cocktails allegedly used in the arson.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
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“Consist (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consist%20%28of%29. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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