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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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The composite flash PMI came in at 48.8, below analysts’ consensus expectation of 49.4 in The Wall Street Journal’s poll.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Authorities later released three images of a composite face the FBI created in the hope of identifying the person.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

In the composite view, Earth moves diagonally from the upper left toward the lower right.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

NDR’s daily trading sentiment composite entered August in its “extreme-pessimism” zone before rebounding to 44.44 on Monday, just inside neutral territory.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

The torsion on the clamp snapped the strong composite like a brittle twig.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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 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

I have had exactly the same difficulties with the composites.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton

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

Lepore had a stand-in of Marcel that she would place in the location to mark where the puppet would go once the stop-motion scenes were composited into the frame.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2022

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

That was too wonderful, Mamma, everything happening in a vast room on one floor; compositing, typewriting, printing, and sorting.

From Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn




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