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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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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

All three major U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 0.8%, the S&P 500 falling 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite losing 0.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Participants in the SLI group had a 55% greater improvement on a composite measure of global cognition compared with participants in the FLI group.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

“I understand you have been working today with police artists on composite drawings of the persons you saw with the missing boy on Sunday.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The airframe of a jet fighter like an F-35 is mostly constructed from composites, aluminum, and titanium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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 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

And as a matter of fact the very defects in the material composites are a good when we have in view not the particular thing but the whole.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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

She does concede now that some timelines have been altered and characters composited.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2023

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

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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