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[kuhm-prahyz] / kəmˈpraɪz /


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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

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

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

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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