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Investors worry about software loans, which comprise 80% of OTF’s portfolio, due to new artificial intelligence tools.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

AI can then scrutinize those smells, and the tech can figure out, for instance, exactly what volatile gases comprise a scent, in what combination, and what those combinations mean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Overall, store sales were flat but online sales rose 5% year on year to comprise 42% of total net sales, the company said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Total orders for durable goods—which comprise goods meant to last three years or more—fell 1.4% in the month, compared with a 5.4% rise in November.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Why, as Arthur Eddington liked to ask, do the nuclei that comprise my elbow not slide effortlessly through the nuclei that comprise the table?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan