composite
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The Nasdaq composite fell 1.5%, leading the session’s losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
HFR’s 500 fund-weighted composite index rose 7.1% through the first half of the year, about the same as the typical 60/40 portfolio of equities and bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
In late 1914, an unknown hand reassembled fragments of stained and painted glass into a composite image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Tour’s top prize, the yellow jersey, goes to the rider with the shortest composite time over three weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Orson Welles rehearses The Campbell Playhouse in this 1938 CBS publicity composite.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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 also plays a large role in pesticides, chemicals for drilling and refining, and the specialized compounds, coatings and composites used in advanced electronics and defense manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
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
Aster.—A very large family of autumn-blooming composites, including some ornamental species, all of the easiest culture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
According to Moghaddam, “The images were composited on the fabric with the help of a computer,” and the process didn’t feel constraining.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
The more people are represented in the composited excreta, the cheaper the technology gets and the more powerful public health protection becomes.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
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
Right: True Tone in yellow light composited into the blue light image.
From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2018
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
The assemblages of animals and plants compositing that fauna and flora did not appear in the area they now inhabit simultaneously, but at several distinct points in time.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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