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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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The Nasdaq composite closed at a new record earlier in the week, but stocks exposed to artificial intelligence came under pressure later on as concerns around debt and investment returns resurfaced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The composite purchasing managers index jumped into expansionary territory for the first time this year in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"It's a composite image. Each member of this family has several prototypes," the guide explained.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Nasdaq composite jumped 1.2%, while the S&P 500 advanced 0.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A composite of these things was prowling round the shelters.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Characters played by Banderas and Leo Woodall are composites of figures Bourdain knew during his time in Cape Cod.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Gomez’s paintings are not based on spontaneous discoveries but on composites of photos he’s taken around the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

The “industry demand backdrop is red hot,” wrote William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma on Thursday, adding that Seemann is a leader in advanced composites.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

Ceramics, composites, and other substitutes are fine as far as they go, but they do only a tiny part of the job.

From The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

Mara Wilson wrote, “And what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her? You couldn’t hire any of them?”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025

According to Moghaddam, “The images were composited on the fabric with the help of a computer,” and the process didn’t feel constraining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

The more people are represented in the composited excreta, the cheaper the technology gets and the more powerful public health protection becomes.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021

The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019

On August 15, 1950, leaf samples for chemical analyses were taken from each tree in all replications and composited by treatments into six samples.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The featurettes include words from the director, production designer Jess Gonchor, visual effect supervisor Scott Farrar, compositing supervisor Chris Balog, cinematographer Polly Morgan, to name a few, and all of the primary cast.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2021

The philosophy for the VFX was rooted in in-camera shooting — to harness compositing or CG only when necessary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2021

Collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin




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