compose
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D’Ornano oversaw product research, helping to compose some of Sisley’s most iconic skin-care creams and scents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Pillinger persuaded Britpop band Blur to compose a distinctive call-sign that Beagle 2 would transmit to Earth after landing.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He declined to say which AI tool helped him compose the Journal piece, which he wrote over the weekend while on vacation with his grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Several times he had to stop singing to compose himself and, when the music stopped, he had to wipe tears from his eyes.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
He gives me a second to compose myself and then he asks, “Are we done with the video thing?”
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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This is the reverse of many professionals who edit—or copy and paste—whatever an AI tool composes in response to a prompt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
He said “the president occupies a unique position in the constitutional scheme, the only person who alone composes a branch of government.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
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 composes his songs at home - which are no longer than a minute long as he gets out of breath easily - and his sets last just 30 minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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To overcome this limitation, the Oxford researchers studied an engineered virus-like particle composed of 60 protein units.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
How might a relatively small concern like the Avalanches continue to make records composed of sampled material in this climate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
City, so composed and ordered amid the toxicity of Anfield on Sunday, were shell-shocked on home territory as even born streetfighters such as Enzo Fernandez were reduced to chasing shadows.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
“We could have worked something out. You could have...I don’t know. You could have gone to the fence instead of me. You would have probably been good at that, negotiating, keeping it composed, cold. Distant.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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A piano prodigy who made her professional debut at the age of 9, Clara was composing by the time she was in her teens.
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
It was created by the street artist Frank Styles, who hand-sprayed it as four separate works before composing them into a single image across all 58 of the site's Spanish Steps.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
Then, composing himself: “You never knew who I was or where I came from.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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