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"Those 5,000 people comprise a community. Not just men and women under stress. It's a community under stress."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cases in the U.S. comprise only the smallest fraction of those numbers, with annual deaths usually in the low hundreds and diagnosed cases in the thousands.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
U.S. revenues now comprise 81% of the overall business, up from 73% last year, Palantir CFO David Glazer told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Total orders for durable goods, which comprise goods meant to last three years or more, increased in June by 0.3% to $334.8 billion, compared with a 4% decrease in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
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Written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, it comprises three stories over six episodes, with a longer mystery running below and the halting romantic do-si-do sprinkled on top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A commercial tree comprises a rootstock, chosen for its tolerance to local conditions, grafted to the upper half which determines what sort of fruit is produced.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The G20 comprises 19 nations plus the EU and the African Union, and was established in the wake of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis to boost global economic and financial stability.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Shein said its product selection comprises of more than 2 million apparel styles, with customers able to select from about 4,700 new styles on a daily basis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
This list comprises the basic elements of music as we understand them in Western culture.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The transaction implies a total enterprise value of approximately $7.7 billion, comprised of an equity purchase price of approximately $4.6 billion and approximately $3.1 billion of debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the most recent fiscal year, he said, Medi-Cal patients comprised 26% of 336,600 inpatient days and 34% of 156,000 emergency department visits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
If horror is “flesh and fluids,” then the flesh of this movie is a body comprised of nebulous ideas.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
According to data from Circana, they comprised 1.6% of women’s total footwear sales for the 12 months ending in June; that was a bit up from 1.4% a year ago.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The palace complex comprised the Beta quarter and was in the northeast; Alpha quarter housed the courts of justice, and Delta the town’s extensive Jewish community.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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
The National Museum alone lost almost two-thirds of its inventory, comprising nearly 100,000 artifacts that covered Sudan’s prehistoric age through its Nubian era, the Kingdom of Kush, the Christian era and its Islamic period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Among the 70-year-old's most famous pieces, produced with his brother Gao Qiang, is a sculpture comprising a squad of Mao-like figures holding Jesus Christ at gunpoint.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
I had had in the meantime more opportunity to observe the house; it was taller than it was broad, comprising four floors, with ivy covering much of the front right up to the gables.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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