composite
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That sent the Nasdaq composite to its worst day since June and its worst month in more than a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But there’s nothing charming about composite decking, which is what I found myself researching when our wood started rotting under the weight of New England winter.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Those fears on Thursday sent the Nasdaq composite to one of its worst days of 2026, while on Friday Brent crude vaulted to some of its highest year-to-date levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
S&P Global’s seasonally adjusted flash Australia PMI composite output index fell to 47.7 in October from 51.3 in September, dropping below the neutral 50 mark separating growth from contraction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
A composite of these things was prowling round the shelters.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Investors gave “clearly negative” feedback on the French insurer, despite it being Berenberg’s top pick among European composites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
Helenium.—Showy composites of free growth in lightish soil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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
Right: True Tone in yellow light composited into the blue light image.
From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2018
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
Henderson worked on the show with Will Anderson, the former as a stop-motion animator, the latter on digital animation, 2-D animation, compositing and finishing shots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
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 assemblages of animals and plants compositing that fauna and flora did not appear in the area they now inhabit simultaneously, but at several distinct points in time.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
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