- present tense form of constitute (3rd person singular).
constitutes
Example Sentences
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Rightly or wrongly, recent developments have likely alienated the very crowd that constitutes a Tony viewership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
This constitutes what is now called “practical monetarism”—an updated form of monetarism that brings lessons from the past into contact with the accepted conventions of the present.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
You know what constitutes a winning formula in today’s NBA?
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
He added that the court agrees that Tartaglione's repeated public discussion of the note's contents "constitutes waiver of the attorney-client privilege as to the document" and that sealing is not justified on that basis.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
“In my house I will decide what constitutes treason. What have they been teaching you at college?”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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