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It was only regaining the ability to hear music as music that he could compose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Mirror's Lucy Needham, external noted that the singer was 50 minutes late to start, and may have needed extra time to "compose herself" for the "emotionally charged return".

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Imagine thinking you're playing for Spurs and then for Man City, and then somehow you have to stay at Liverpool and compose yourself, and still perform.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

This trio is a true collective; all three musicians compose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

I even try to compose a quick poem, but the words won’t cooperate.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

She quickly stops laughing and composes herself to tell us the story that inspired her to champion a law banning child marriage in Sierra Leone, which came into effect in 2024.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

In most places in Europe, tax composes 50%-60% of the retail price of fuel, according to Rob Smith, S&P Energy’s director of global fuel retail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

He specifically cites the way Pop Crave composes its posts, saying that there is specific psychology to the way its feed operates and rallies its massive follower base.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2024

He’s decided to keep this in mind as he composes his novels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Gabriel Kahane composed its musical homage to Ms. Nicks and made reference to one of her songs, “Landslide.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As a result, he says, "I think readers are coming to value very obviously personal writing, and maybe even writing that's messier, less structurally sound or composed or perfected, than they maybe once would've desired."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In recent years, AEW has pitched itself as an antidote to the WWE, but its roster is also almost entirely composed of independent contractors.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The wall text for each piece, which also includes a QR code for audio narration, is composed by RM in both languages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Do you ever think about the fact that other people have dinners entirely outside of their boardinghouse rooms that aren’t composed of foods that come in tins or boxes?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He was unappreciated for much of his life—even hissed at in performance—and at times gave up composing entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gretta relates to her songs as though she were the next Joni Mitchell, but the new material she’s composing on the fly with her new friends doesn’t seem particularly intimate or revealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

You're finally about to head off on a well-earned break, but there's one more task to tick off your to-do list: composing an out-of-office reply.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

He was speaking from the shaded courtyard garden of his Mayer am Pfarrplatz heuriger, down the steps from the room where Beethoven stayed while composing part of the Ninth Symphony.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Patria claimed that Pedrito, a man of few words if there ever was one, was composing love poems for her and reciting them during visiting hours.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez