composite
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2% on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 index closed 0.6% lower and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Investors will watch for final services and composite August PMI data in the U.S. and Europe, before attention turns to Friday’s nonfarm payroll data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose around 624 points, or 1.2%, while the S&P 500 added 1.1% and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Scientists have also proposed that it could be a four-quark configuration called a tetraquark or a molecule-like combination of other composite particles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 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
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The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
Silphium, sil′fi-um, n. a genus of American composites with resinous juice—prairie-dock, cup-plant, rosin-weed: an umbelliferous plant whose juice the ancient Greeks used—the Latin laserpitium.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
The veteran actor witnessed the evolution of the film industry, which helped in his Oscar-nominated turn as a composited studio boss in 2013’s best picture winner “Argo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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
Collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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