constitute

Example Sentences

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As in ancient Athens, those most vocal about the need to protect children from corrupting influences insist that such drastic measures constitute a defense of rather than an attack on democratic values and social cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

After MSPs expressed concerns at stage one, the bill now explicitly says that disability and mental illness alone do not constitute terminal illness.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

It does not constitute personalized investment, tax, legal, or financial advice.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

These actions would constitute egregious breaches of professional ethics—clearer-cut violations, in fact, than the conduct that triggered the accusations against him.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

They grew flushed and spotted and thick-tongued and tired and slow-moving near unto the lower limit of what is generally thought to constitute a living human body.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver