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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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U.S. stocks leaped after Wednesday’s punishing session, with the Nasdaq composite gaining about 2% as chip stocks rebound.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

U.S. stocks bounced back, with the Nasdaq composite gaining more than 2% as chip stocks rebounded and Microsoft shares surged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Friday’s session 0.5% higher, while the S&P 500 gained 0.1% and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both lost around 1%, while worries about runaway artificial-intelligence spending by big tech companies dragged the Nasdaq composite down more than 2%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

At his side he held a black composite bow almost as fancy as his eyes.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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

“One of the great things about animation is that you make these composites of impossibly great attributes,” Appelhans told the BBC.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 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

The lines on them are divided into loops, whorls, arches, and composites, the latter class made up of a collection of the first three.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell

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

According to Moghaddam, “The images were composited on the fabric with the help of a computer,” and the process didn’t feel constraining.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2024

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 Glyn, Elinor




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