constitutes

present tense third-person singular of constitute
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Recent Examples of constitutes This interservice competition may increasingly normalize what constitutes acceptable coercion below the nuclear threshold and shape targeting priorities, as well as escalation management. — Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026 The question of what constitutes an official announcement is resolved by the SEC declaring a company's S-1 effective, an IPO pricing or an exchange assigning a ticker to the stock. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026 Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. — Time Staff, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Steve Earle has a minor role as another Tulsa-area journalist who pushes back on some of Lee’s assumptions of what constitutes good work. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 More than 170,000 solid organ transplants are performed each year, yet that constitutes less than 10 percent of global demand. — Robert P. George, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2026 But how much genetic change constitutes complete domestication? — Ornob Alam, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 The three-tracker constitutes the California black metal crew’s first new music since last year’s Lonely People with Power. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026 The unpaid debt is said to have accrued between January 1 and August 31, and constitutes the amount owed following the seizure and auction of property from the premises, carried out earlier by a bailiff. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constitutes
Verb
  • But more are reliant on communication networks like Starlink, which presently comprises a constellation of 11,000 low Earth orbit satellites.
    — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Coming from at least three continents, the cast comprises a dozen players, most of whom have collaborated with Ambarchi or appeared on his excellent label, Black Truffle.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The third book, A Court of Wings and Ruin, essentially wraps up Feyre’s story and establishes the storylines and characters that will propel the series forward.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The constitutional amendment establishes a 40-hour weekly limit and two rest days without reducing pay.
    — Mauricio Savarese, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Raman says Bass and the city’s board of airport commissioners, which the mayor appoints, haven’t done enough to keep costs in check and to ensure construction deadlines are met.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The only exception is the City and County of Denver, where the city’s mayor appoints the Denver County Court’s judges (but not the judges for Denver District Court).
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The legislation enacts new work requirements and greater vetting for Medicaid, the low-income program that thousands of Alaskans depend on for healthcare.
    — Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The rest of the network enacts the decision, as other genes are activated or suppressed farther downstream, but isn’t active in it.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The man composes his responses with the help of a manual that instructs him on which incoming string of Chinese characters should be answered with which other string of Chinese characters.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Agent authority composes dynamically.
    — Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen founds the far-right National Front, building it around anti-immigration and nationalist policies.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Goldschmied enters a partnership with Renzo Rosso and co-founds Diesel.
    — Maria Cristina Pavarini, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • If the vacancy remains, district judges may appoint a prosecutor to serve until the president nominates and the Senate confirms a replacement.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Each team nominates one player annually, and the winner is honored during the World Series.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • To see how this spread creates randomness throughout the world, consider an ordinary coin-flip experiment again.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Republican president signed an executive order that creates a new women’s health division at the National Institutes of Health and a White House task force to focus on the issue.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Constitutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constitutes. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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