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compose

[kuhm-pohz] / kəmˈpoʊz /




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Rapidly advancing AI systems can now compose prose, program code, solve complex mathematical problems, persuade, and discover novel viruses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Then, in the champions' news conference, he became so emotional at one point as he remembered his late grandfather that he could not talk, and had to take a minute to compose himself.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Pillinger persuaded Britpop band Blur to compose a distinctive call-sign that Beagle 2 would transmit to Earth after landing.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He declined to say which AI tool helped him compose the Journal piece, which he wrote over the weekend while on vacation with his grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Her agitation grew as she listed the indignities, but then she inhaled and pressed her lips together as if trying to compose herself.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Musician Labrinth has distanced himself from TV series Euphoria, for which he composes the music, and said he is "done with this industry".

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

This is the reverse of many professionals who edit—or copy and paste—whatever an AI tool composes in response to a prompt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

In the early number “Make a Wish,” Kimberly composes her letter to the Make a Wish foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

He specifically cites the way Pop Crave composes its posts, saying that there is specific psychology to the way its feed operates and rallies its massive follower base.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2024

My dad goes to open it, but not before he takes a deep breath and composes himself.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Two years after serving as musical director for Janet Jackson’s tour, Booker wrote and composed “Crypt Jam,” having Kassir in the booth giving life to the vocals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Enough. We can no longer breathe," shouted marchers in the crowds, which were composed mainly of journalists, rights groups and opposition party representatives.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

And the board itself, which is composed of directors with experience in chips, software, cloud-computing, hardware and AI, has committees that oversee AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

City, so composed and ordered amid the toxicity of Anfield on Sunday, were shell-shocked on home territory as even born streetfighters such as Enzo Fernandez were reduced to chasing shadows.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

I composed a million of them in my head, but nothing seemed right.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

“I need to be cautious about wording since price-fixing could raise legal issues,” a GPT-5 agent noted in its internal chain-of-thought log while composing an email to a competitor.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

His first album of new material for the imprint, “The Singer in My Band,” out Friday, finds his composing gifts intact and also hints at where Mr. Amos should go next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

You're finally about to head off on a well-earned break, but there's one more task to tick off your to-do list: composing an out-of-office reply.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Nasa says he’s not sure what he’ll do now that he’s graduated, but one thing he’s interested in is composing for musical theater — or possibly scoring films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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