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composition

[kom-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌkɒm pəˈzɪʃ ən /




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So changes in the composition of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors shouldn’t unduly influence investment decisions.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Then she found out the star wanted half the songwriting profits as a condition of cutting her track, even though he had nothing to do with the composition.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

A composition by Rubén Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes, the song wasn’t just another lilting ranchera from the 1950s — that much was clear.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Art may be approached and appreciated for its purely visual elements: line, color, light, composition, form, and space.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

In one sense, he was selling himself short: “Revolver” featured three Harrison compositions, a glut of new material that included “Taxman,” “Love You To” and “I Want to Tell You.”

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

By Ma Rainey’s own testimony, she’d picked up on and incorporated into her compositions blues lines she’d heard used by wandering folk musicians.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Other compositions on the album draw on memories of Port Talbot, childhood visits with his grandfather, the cinema that first caught his imagination, and the people closest to him.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

As new flies had been born, selected, and bred, the gene frequencies had changed, resulting in populations with new genetic compositions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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