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consist

[kuhn-sist, kon-sist] / kənˈsɪst, ˈkɒn sɪst /


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These consist of sovereign securities with tenors of more than three years and up to five years, those with tenors of more than 10 years and up to 25 years, and inflation-indexed bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Instead of being powered by the nuclear fusion that fuels ordinary stars, the object may consist of an extremely dense cloud of gas energized by a black hole at its center.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Overlapping action figures, posters and teddy bears also cover Martin's walls and ceilings – his collectables consist of "anything unusual", but he's mostly inspired by Hollywood.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Kinjo says that reefs flanking his seaside farm consist entirely of corals he cultivated, with their natural peers "no longer able to keep up with a tremendous increase in stress" in the anthropogenically polluted ocean.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Our meals consist entirely of potatoes and imitation gravy.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The vast majority of UAE trade with Iran consists in re-exports, according to official Emirati data, including everything from phones to meat and other foodstuffs.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

This list consists of seven things I think every driver should carry in their vehicle based on my own experiences.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

DNA consists of long molecular chains that carry the genetic instructions needed for life.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

The drifting “Other Plans” is so minimal that much of Ms. Bridgers’s melody line consists of a single repeated note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The engine is simple because, like Papin’s first steam engine of 1690, it consists of a single cylinder powered by atmospheric pressure only.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Each consisted of a conical plastic container with a netted bottom and held one queen along with 60 worker bees.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

It mainly consisted of women inoculated during the third trimester.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The men were released, and she wanted them to perform with her dance company on the outside, Figures in Flight, which consisted of a dozen teenage girls.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Until around a year ago the party's entire social media team consisted of one full-time employee.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Welcome to its new “AI Creator TV” channel, now available on the app’s streaming service and consisting exclusively of app-generated films and shows, along with commercials that feature “synthetic performers.”

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

To investigate this connection, the team studied a large multicenter group consisting of fifty patients and one hundred brain hemispheres.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

The new bill would cap spending at $48.8 million, consisting of $21.3 million from the settlement of the House v.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Hilary Putnam often gave his Harvard philosophy students a final exam consisting of an unusual challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Bands are the tiniest societies, consisting typically of 5 to 80 people, most or all of them close relatives by birth or by marriage.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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