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consisted (of)

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past tense of consist (of)

as in comprised

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

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Introduced in 2018, the V12 Vantage V600 comprised seven coupes and seven convertibles in total.

— Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2026
The active management area comprised about 326,000 acre-feet in 2024, most of which was slated for residential use.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

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Surveillance video recovered by the Daily News shows a scrap collector finding the black cloth case used to hold a musical instrument that contained Owusu’s body.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
Prosecutors said the bag also contained two white envelopes stuffed with $15,000 in cash — the remainder of Meiser’s payment.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

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The search included both town’s police and dive teams as well as drone and canine teams along the shoreline.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
Del Casher, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the wah-wah pedal, has died at the age of 88.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026

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