composite
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Participants in the SLI group had a 55% greater improvement on a composite measure of global cognition compared with participants in the FLI group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Scientists have also proposed that it could be a four-quark configuration called a tetraquark or a molecule-like combination of other composite particles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
That is more than twice the annual gain of the Dow industrials and easily more than the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Gomez’s paintings are not based on spontaneous discoveries but on composites of photos he’s taken around the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
The “industry demand backdrop is red hot,” wrote William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma on Thursday, adding that Seemann is a leader in advanced composites.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
It also plays a large role in pesticides, chemicals for drilling and refining, and the specialized compounds, coatings and composites used in advanced electronics and defense manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
Silphium, sil′fi-um, n. a genus of American composites with resinous juice—prairie-dock, cup-plant, rosin-weed: an umbelliferous plant whose juice the ancient Greeks used—the Latin laserpitium.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The veteran actor witnessed the evolution of the film industry, which helped in his Oscar-nominated turn as a composited studio boss in 2013’s best picture winner “Argo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Many minor characters from Dickens’ book are composited or eliminated altogether—and with good reason, since otherwise the cast list would be at least double the size.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2020
The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019
Those are all people that I ran into and those were all stuff that was composited.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2015
On August 15, 1950, leaf samples for chemical analyses were taken from each tree in all replications and composited by treatments into six samples.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
The featurettes include words from the director, production designer Jess Gonchor, visual effect supervisor Scott Farrar, compositing supervisor Chris Balog, cinematographer Polly Morgan, to name a few, and all of the primary cast.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2021
The philosophy for the VFX was rooted in in-camera shooting — to harness compositing or CG only when necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
The assemblages of animals and plants compositing that fauna and flora did not appear in the area they now inhabit simultaneously, but at several distinct points in time.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
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