constituent

Example Sentences

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It’s three-and-a-half times as high as for the Nasdaq 100 overall and about three times as much as major index constituent Apple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 10, 2026

Once the predictions were confirmed theoretically, collaborators at Rice University synthesized the materials by chemically combining their constituent elements into new compounds.

From Science Daily • Jul. 7, 2026

Lake, who has campaigned for his constituent for the past two years, said the case was one of the clearest injustices he had come across in his nine years as an MP.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026

That’s the term investors use to describe the market’s tendency to value a diversified company lower than it might price the company’s constituent parts.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan