consisted

past tense of consist

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Recent Examples of consisted Whereas my life at that time consisted purely of practicalities. Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025 Before this high achiever entered La Mer’s roster of offerings, its lip category consisted only of The Lip Balm, The Lip Polish, and The Lip Volumizer — all geared towards nourishing, restoring, and, in case of the latter, treating pouts to buildable color. Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025 The rest, the court wrote, consisted mostly of predictions, speculation, or opinion — or was substantially true. Stephen L. Carter, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 The rest, the court wrote, consisted mostly of predictions, speculation, or opinion — or was substantially true. Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025 At the time, my wardrobe consisted mostly of neon backless shirts and tank tops, and an eclectic assortment of flip-flops, both formal and informal. Alisha Fernandez Miranda, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consisted
Verb
  • To confirm the match, the team carefully aligned the Hubble and JWST images using 36 stars visible in both datasets as reference points, ensuring that every pixel corresponded to the same spot in the sky, the study noted.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The latest flare-up coincided with a historic trip by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Pakistan’s rival India, triggering concern in Islamabad.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Con Tampa in September 2023 and April 2023's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, which coincided with costar Daniels' 96th birthday.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dylan Buell / Getty Images The Sacramento Kings and fourth-year forward Keegan Murray have agreed to a five-year, $140 million extension, a league source told The Athletic.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In a step toward easing that friction, however, NBCU and Apple have agreed to place select programming on the partner service’s app.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In one experiment, a robot fitted with the new skin successfully navigated a model of human arteries.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Atlanta Hawks traded for Kristaps Porziņģis, a former All-Star who is too accomplished to fit into this category.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Consisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consisted. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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