component

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Potash, the potassium-rich component of fertilizers, has also been in short supply in recent years, in part because of economic sanctions on Belarus and Russia, which are major potash producers.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Earnings growth is a big component of that bet.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Admittedly, signs of AI’s runaway costs have been apparent for a while, given the blowout spending of major cloud network operators and the huge growth of key component suppliers like Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

These are price changes, weighted by component companies’ market capitalization, excluding dividends:

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Division of the RNA component into a large number of subunits would produce polynucleotide chains too small to carry the genetic information that Francis and I believed must reside in the viral RNA.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson