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constituent

[kuhn-stich-oo-uhnt] / kənˈstɪtʃ u ənt /


ADJECTIVE
voting
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The Senate was in recess, so Bushfield instead handled constituent services from North Dakota.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

A mantle plume ascending from deep within the mantle whose constituent material differs chemically from the surrounding mantle and may include components derived from ancient oceanic crust.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

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

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

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

Despite acknowledging subtle differences with Lindsey—“I have my own way of doing things,” she wrote in a note to constituents last week—she has emphasized that they shared the “same values.”

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Wednesday will kick off the earnings season for technology companies, with Magnificent Seven constituents Alphabet and Tesla set to report quarterly results after the closing bell.

From MarketWatch Jul. 19, 2026

“So, yeah, I am concerned about it. We ought to be talking about things looking forward that our constituents are most concerned about.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

“I make a motion to appoint myself,” Verdugo said last week from a folding chair in an elementary-school cafeteria, looking out at dozens of constituents perched awkwardly on low kid-size benches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Whatever its chemical constituents, the transforming principle was not composed of sugars, lipids, or proteins.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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