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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
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From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Should it happen, it would constitute what’s known in technical political-science jargon as a “disaster” for anyone unfortunate enough to be serving in Congress at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
While those differences constitute the most basic fact of world history, the reasons for them remain uncertain and controversial.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Even my chicken-tasting panel had thoughts about what constitutes an actual Cane’s.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
What constitutes “comparable or better,” the policy states, is determined by StubHub “in its sole discretion based on cost, quality, availability and other factors.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Another challenge can be determining what constitutes a "reasonable adjustment," a sticking point which can be what ends up being decided in a tribunal.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
When the Rams won Super Bowl LVI, inside their home stadium in Inglewood, Calif., it constituted absolute vindication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
Though we were then at loggerheads with the government, negotiations in and of themselves, I said, constituted a victory.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Prosecutors contend that the Paramount deal would reach and, in some cases, exceed established thresholds, constituting violations of the century-old Clayton Antitrust Act that was adopted to protect markets and consumers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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