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as in to comprise
to be all the substance of
nine players constitute a baseball team
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as in to establish
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
a fund was constituted to help needy students attend the prep school
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as in to appoint
to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty
the legally constituted authorities with jurisdiction in this matter
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as in to enact
to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action
charged with enforcing such regulations as are constituted by the government
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Recent Examples of constitute
But Ten Hag’s firing obliterated any remaining expectation, forcing a recalculation of what would constitute success this season — and that is very much to Hjulmand’s benefit.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Working With the White House While the ICRC is a private organization, contributions from various governments constitute up to 82 percent of its funding.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
If the damage were to knock down private-equity firms (which are invested in these data centers) themselves—which manage trillions and trillions of dollars in assets and constitute what is basically a global shadow-banking system—that could produce another major crash.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
These women were redefining what constitutes beauty, femininity and resilience by fearlessly displaying the raw, unfiltered truth of bodies changed by illness and treatment.
—Tabitha Britt, Flow Space, 30 Oct. 2025
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Working With the White House While the ICRC is a private organization, contributions from various governments constitute up to 82 percent of its funding.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
If the damage were to knock down private-equity firms (which are invested in these data centers) themselves—which manage trillions and trillions of dollars in assets and constitute what is basically a global shadow-banking system—that could produce another major crash.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
These women were redefining what constitutes beauty, femininity and resilience by fearlessly displaying the raw, unfiltered truth of bodies changed by illness and treatment.
—Tabitha Britt, Flow Space, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for constitute
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Competitive sections for features, documentaries, and shorts each comprise 16 titles, while retrospectives, restorations, and regional premieres are grouped into three out-of-competition strands of 24 films.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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That’s up from , enough to comprise nearly one-fifth of all money invested in the stock market.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
7 Nov. 2025
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The film is set in 1935 Tartu and at the University of Tartu, where, a year earlier, Professor Lazar Gulkowitsch, exiled from Germany, had established a chair of Judaic Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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While proponents of wearable technology in prisons and jails have described it as potentially lifesaving, privacy rights groups and even law enforcement officials say the devices can raise ethical and legal concerns and urge agencies to establish strict rules on data use, retention and consent.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Members of the Little Rock housing authority's board of commissioners on Friday voted to recommend that Keith Fountain be appointed to a five-year term on the board.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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The president worked with Gifford Pinchot—the US Forest Service’s first leader—on a publicity campaign in this realm, and came to appoint a commission in 1903 that held public hearings and investigations the president knew would grab headlines.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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If enacted, many of the policies laid out could significantly alter the day-to-day lives of NASA workers and transform the 67-year-old agency.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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But thus far, the promise has yet to be enacted by his Administration.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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Manilow has produced, composed, and performed some of the most iconic commercial jingles of all time for companies and brands such as State Farm, Band-Aid, KFC, Pepsi and McDonald’s.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
11 Nov. 2025
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Quds Force, was initiated at the end of 2024 and was active through the first half of this year, said the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Elsewhere, Japan, Australia, and France have initiated hypersonic weapon programs with a focus on regional security and allied cooperation.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, and his novel Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Now, both Warren and Rae are nominated as Best New Artists at the Grammy Awards.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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About 1,000 people attended an event Monday night by Turning Point USA, the group Kirk founded, at the university’s Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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He’s collaborated with the company since it was founded in 2022.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Constitute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constitute. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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