composite
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The Nasdaq composite gained 1.7%, the S&P 500 rose 1.1%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite posted their biggest one-day gains in six weeks on Thursday, led by a rally in technology stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The word “could” seems carefully chosen: The annual cost of the composite drug is well over $300,000, something for which the pharmaceutical company Vertex has come under considerable fire, including from people like Prof. Quinton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The S&P 500 lost 37 points, or 0.48%, to 7619.98 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 146.62 points, or 0.56%, to 26186.41.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
At his side he held a black composite bow almost as fancy as his eyes.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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Characters played by Banderas and Leo Woodall are composites of figures Bourdain knew during his time in Cape Cod.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
“One of the great things about animation is that you make these composites of impossibly great attributes,” Appelhans told the BBC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Repeating this process multiple times allows them to create composites with very high metal content.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
South African genus of composites requiring very warm sunny spots and rich gritty soil.
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
Those are all people that I ran into and those were all stuff that was composited.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2015
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 Mihai Nadin
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