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On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Collectively, they constitute a really big source of human-caused climate change,” said Emily Williams, the lead author and a climate scientist at UC Merced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Disclosure: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation, or an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
That is, the invisible corpuscles or atoms which, for a Cartesian, constitute light.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Gen. Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of the deals violates federal law and constitutes an illegal payout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hoskins said in an interview that the rulings reflected differences of opinion over what constitutes fair and accurate language, noting that the appellate courts had also sometimes rejected revisions made or approved by lower courts.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
More generally, I am not sure what constitutes an emolument.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
I question whether literary agents should decide what constitutes acceptable authorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is illegal to subject pretrial detainees like Walter and Myers to confinement that constitutes punishment.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
The union argued in the lawsuit that it constituted “a transfer of wealth from the workers to their employers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The investigation is looking into whether private-credit deals involving his companies constituted fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Earlier, Alex Goodman KC, for Crowborough Shield, said the Home Office wrongly decided the need to accommodate asylum seekers constituted an "emergency" under planning rules, meaning it was automatically granted permission to develop the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Such differences in food production constituted a major ultimate cause of the disparities between Eurasian and Native American societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
This isn’t just an expensive proposition — it’s also a psychological danger, constituting behavior that is likely to get men to withdraw from the real world and attachments to real people.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 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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