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Net sales, which constitute most of Costco’s top line, grew to $93.87 billion from $84.43 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He said those protections did not constitute institutional endorsement of every speaker’s views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Running a business, either directly or indirectly, would breach the terms of Hall's bankruptcy order and constitute a criminal offence.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Indeed, a White House official told ProPublica that Dans’ consulting work did not constitute a conflict of interest for that very reason.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
I am not here to argue that this constitutes thrift.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
The reason such strength constitutes a bubble warning is that investors have to be particularly exuberant in order to bid growth stocks higher in the wake of rising interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Bessent's plan constitutes a "forced effort that's too obvious," O'Hare said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
It will then require approval from full council because it constitutes a change to the authority's annual budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
They constituted only 14% of listings in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
European stocks struggled after a strong session on Thursday, as the continent’s more defensively constituted indexes lost out as investors returned to risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said attacks on Mecca and Medina province, where Islam's second holiest shrine is located, constituted an "unacceptable and intolerable transgression".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
A Greenlandic commission is to present a highly anticipated report Friday to determine whether Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of the Arctic island's indigenous Inuit constituted a "genocide".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Indeed, it might even be said that this small decision of mine constituted something of a key turning point; that that decision set things on an inevitable course towards what eventually happened.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
The prosecutor general said Kozyura had agreed to share information "constituting state secrets" for financial reward and deserved the harshest punishment.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive... trading act constituting market manipulation".
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
According to McKinsey & Co., the total quantum industry — computing, communications and sensing — could grow into a $97 billion market by 2035, with quantum computing constituting the lion’s share.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
Public health experts have gone so far as to describe social isolation and loneliness as constituting a public health crisis in the United States.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
The enthusiasm Olmsted had identified during his travels, though still far from constituting a tidal wave, at last seemed to begin propelling visitors to Jackson Park.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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