composition
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Gym rats can check their body composition of fat and muscle, people with heart issues can get their heartbeat captured, and mole owners can get their moles mapped to 0.1 mm.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Many of these listeners chuckled aloud when Mr. Sun, having led his quartet through a pent-up and mostly atonal original composition, “Hold Music,” explained its inspiration: a 90-minute ordeal on the phone with the IRS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
We think that HD 3167 b might have a silicate-rich composition, with a similar mixture of minerals that make up Earth's mantle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The individual ceramic tiles create a complete composition but are also subject to the vicissitudes of the kiln.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Vincent isn’t yet an artist when he writes those words to Theo, but he paints the scene perfectly, with color, light, composition, emotion—a landscape of memory.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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It remains one of R.E.M.’s strongest compositions, an entire sonic landscape that morphs instantly into a whole other world.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Krasner moved in various directions, including, after Pollock’s death in 1956, occasional echoes of his compositions, perhaps as mourning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Livia’s students perform a kind of greatest hits of the novel’s signal compositions, each one emphasizing something different and intimately revealing in their playing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"This is the first time we've had the statistical power to see that trend across a large sample of stars in six galaxies, all with different chemical compositions," Telford said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Children can draw simple shapes and textures to express sounds and compositions that they’ve invented, or can read the work of another child who has written in this type of notation.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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