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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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While the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite slipped 55.17 points, or 0.22%, to 24876.91.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Over the past five sessions, the Nasdaq composite fell 2.1%, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6% and 0.4%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both lost around 1%, while worries about runaway artificial-intelligence spending by big tech companies dragged the Nasdaq composite down more than 2%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That brings the composite VIX chart down to point “B” — its low for the year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

It’s natural sometimes to confuse a group of individuals with some ideal composite individual.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The airframe of a jet fighter like an F-35 is mostly constructed from composites, aluminum, and titanium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Gomez’s paintings are not based on spontaneous discoveries but on composites of photos he’s taken around the city.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

The “industry demand backdrop is red hot,” wrote William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma on Thursday, adding that Seemann is a leader in advanced composites.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2025

So gainful has this kind of co-operation proved that composites are now dominant among plants in every quarter of the globe.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George

Many viewers assumed the photos were AI-generated or composited, but every detail was achieved in camera.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

Mara Wilson wrote, “And what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her? You couldn’t hire any of them?”

From Salon Sep. 30, 2025

Many minor characters from Dickens’ book are composited or eliminated altogether—and with good reason, since otherwise the cast list would be at least double the size.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2020

The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media.

From The Guardian May 31, 2019

On August 15, 1950, leaf samples for chemical analyses were taken from each tree in all replications and composited by treatments into six samples.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.

From Seattle Times Apr. 6, 2022

The featurettes include words from the director, production designer Jess Gonchor, visual effect supervisor Scott Farrar, compositing supervisor Chris Balog, cinematographer Polly Morgan, to name a few, and all of the primary cast.

From Washington Times Aug. 26, 2021

Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2021

The philosophy for the VFX was rooted in in-camera shooting — to harness compositing or CG only when necessary.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2021

Collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai




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