compose
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D’Ornano oversaw product research, helping to compose some of Sisley’s most iconic skin-care creams and scents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
It was only regaining the ability to hear music as music that he could compose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Imagine thinking you're playing for Spurs and then for Man City, and then somehow you have to stay at Liverpool and compose yourself, and still perform.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
This trio is a true collective; all three musicians compose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I wish one could compose in darkness,” said I. “And play music without others observing.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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She quickly stops laughing and composes herself to tell us the story that inspired her to champion a law banning child marriage in Sierra Leone, which came into effect in 2024.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
In most places in Europe, tax composes 50%-60% of the retail price of fuel, according to Rob Smith, S&P Energy’s director of global fuel retail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
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
Rich, 54, a decidedly stolid type who composes their music and plays guitar, recalled, “Hair metal was big.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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"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
For the interval act, Dónal Lunny and Bill Whelan composed a three-part suite of baroque-influenced traditional music called Timedance, recorded and performed live by Planxty.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
To overcome this limitation, the Oxford researchers studied an engineered virus-like particle composed of 60 protein units.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Gabriel Kahane composed its musical homage to Ms. Nicks and made reference to one of her songs, “Landslide.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It was composed of twenty-seven steps—in theory, a good number.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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“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
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
He didn’t like composing radio hooks or fronting a traditional band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was speaking from the shaded courtyard garden of his Mayer am Pfarrplatz heuriger, down the steps from the room where Beethoven stayed while composing part of the Ninth Symphony.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
For the next twelve years lived abroad, in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, composing the first volume of Dead Souls, the novel considered to be his finest work.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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