consisting

Definition of consistingnext
present participle of consist

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of consisting As a result of the workforce reduction, the company expects to incur charges of approximately $450 million to $500 million, consisting primarily of severance payments, employee benefits and noncash expenses related to share vesting, according to a securities filing. Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026 In most of the country, Clean Monday celebrations are rather more sedate, consisting mainly of flying kites and consuming copious amounts of shellfish and other seafood. ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026 For a long time, the conversation surrounding nuclear power and cancer has been fractured, consisting mostly of small, isolated studies. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026 The ensuing story—consisting entirely of letters among artists, courtiers, and religious leaders—is a wild ride through the politics and intrigue of Renaissance Italy that incorporates real historical figures. Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 Other people worked as porteurs (mineral carriers), laveurs (mineral washers), and ramasseurs (groups, consisting mainly of children, who pick up slag that has been discarded near the mines). Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 Around 2005, official estimates placed the country’s reserves at roughly 77 to 80 billion barrels, consisting primarily of conventional crude. Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026 But the person who spends the entire game making prop bets on his phone is experiencing a drama whose shape is fundamentally unrelated to the game and its outcome, consisting instead of a patchwork of mini-dramas centering on this pitch, that run, that pass play. Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026 This track, consisting largely of vocals and horn, gives me the feeling of actually floating. Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consisting
Verb
  • Futures on China’s 30-year and 10-year bonds dropped the most since late December on Monday, while corresponding cash yields climbed.
    Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The Music Mania festival, corresponding to the Sweet 16 NCAA Men’s Basketball games being played at SAP Center in San Jose, was listed as being canceled on its ticketing website as of Monday.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The team found a major levoglucosan peak centered around 1128 CE, coinciding with a similar peak recorded from the Schwarzboden mire peat core, another important reservoir of atmospheric history sampled about 12 miles southeast of Weißseespitze.
    Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The rise in police overtime costs has coinciding with a decline in staffing.
    Devan Patel, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Researchers have developed new hair-thin actuator fiber that can pave way to build safer soft robots and body-conforming wearable devices designed to interact closely with people.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Exile is a state of being barred from a homeland—of being forced to live in a foreign world as punishment for not conforming.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026

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“Consisting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consisting. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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