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The 100 million barrels will comprise a mix of diesel and crude oil.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
While the affected goods only comprise about 5% of Canada’s exports to the U.S., “politically the rupture is considerably larger,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, said in a weekend note.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Bedminster, about 40 miles west of Manhattan, is one of five towns that comprise the Somerset Hills, an affluent region of New Jersey known for its rolling countryside, historic estates and Gilded Age history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Cases in the U.S. comprise only the smallest fraction of those numbers, with annual deaths usually in the low hundreds and diagnosed cases in the thousands.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Why, as Arthur Eddington liked to ask, do the nuclei that comprise my elbow not slide effortlessly through the nuclei that comprise the table?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Undergraduate education comprises three elements: students, teachers and classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A third floor comprises the master bedroom, surrounded by three decks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
As Herzog moves the sisters between reality and film’s dreamy latter half, he plunges into the fizzy static that comprises their cosmic connection, examining their solitude as only he can.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
A commercial tree comprises a rootstock, chosen for its tolerance to local conditions, grafted to the upper half which determines what sort of fruit is produced.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
In Feynman’s sum, each history comprises a complete space-time and everything in it.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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GDP in 1913 — which was $39.5 billion, according to Measuring Worth — Rockefeller’s wealth comprised 2.3% of total national output, or the equivalent of roughly $742 billion in today’s economy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The university's Faculty Senate, a governing body comprised of professors and other academic staff, will vote on a resolution of no confidence next week, according to reports.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In Trump Media’s first-ever earnings call on Monday, Interim Chief Executive Kevin McGurn said the early sign-ups comprised primarily high-frequency trading firms paying between $60,000 and $100,000 a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“It is shocking that Defendants think installing a Board of Directors comprised primarily of Nexstar executives would not create influence over Tegna management,” Nunley wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Munger’s remarks articulated a great deal of what Mike Burry, too, believed about markets and the people who comprised them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The Election Commission, a three-member body comprising the chief election commissioner and two election commissioners, defended its decision-making process, saying differing views were part of institutional functioning and that decisions had ultimately been taken unanimously.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Last year, Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure, comprising over half of its $12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
It appears, for instance, on the website of the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, a lobbying organization comprising health insurers and pro-business groups such as local chambers of commerce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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