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comprise

[kuhm-prahyz] / kəmˈpraɪz /


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So far this year, 35% of the city’s homicide victims were Black, even though Black people comprise just 8% of the population — roughly the same percentage that they represented 20 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The initial 44 contacts were health care workers, while the additional nine comprise more health staff as well as members of the infected woman's family and household staff, Idris said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

“There are many fine law firms that comprise many fine professionals, who are trying to serve clients in what can appear to be very similar ways,” said Heather McDevitt, chair of White & Case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Combining the information technology and communication services sectors, tech stocks comprise almost half of the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The company owns factories, machinery and showrooms, and employs mechanics, accountants and secretaries, but all these together do not comprise Peugeot.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

It comprises Number 10, Number 10 North and other key parts of the Cabinet Office and is led by the UK's most senior civil servant, Dame Antonia Romeo.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Revenue from the division rose about 15% in the second quarter and comprises about 16% of the company’s total.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

As Herzog moves the sisters between reality and film’s dreamy latter half, he plunges into the fizzy static that comprises their cosmic connection, examining their solitude as only he can.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

In true Tove Lo fashion, the surrounding serene village made her turn to the familiar sounds of heavy club electronica, further building on the contradictory ethos that comprises “Estrus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Eurasia comprises the whole of the northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal to the Bering Strait.

From "1984" by George Orwell

In 1922, they put Bevan up for the town council, and by 1929, the 16 members comprised of 10 from Labour, with five of these members of the Query Club.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

That sum comprised roughly 27% of their collective domestic equity holdings as of June, up from 12% the last quarter of 2022, when ChatGPT launched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He painted a picture of a Muse business model comprised of subscriptions, ads, e-commerce tools and other features.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Among those sources of conflict expressed in “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” are the years that comprised the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement as it was often referred to at the time.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The other is comprised of the exterior walls and roof, a brick-and-concrete shell that fits over the cells like a dish over a stick of butter.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Utilities in Southern states asked for $2.2 billion in rate hikes during the third quarter, according to PowerLines, comprising the steepest requests in the country.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Election Commission, a three-member body comprising the chief election commissioner and two election commissioners, defended its decision-making process, saying differing views were part of institutional functioning and that decisions had ultimately been taken unanimously.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Musk’s company is back to comprising more than half of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Home in Greenwood was a four-room bungalow, comprising half of a double house that sat on a quiet shady road.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright


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