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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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Still, the S&P 500 lost 0.5%, while the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

In the composite view, Earth moves diagonally from the upper left toward the lower right.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Nasdaq composite fell 0.8% as Alphabet shares dropped 4% following news of executive departures.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

NDR’s daily trading sentiment composite entered August in its “extreme-pessimism” zone before rebounding to 44.44 on Monday, just inside neutral territory.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Most of the MAV is made from composite, but the struts had to absorb the shock of landing.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

His products, of course, are composites of gold, labor, and other raw materials, etc., but part of the extra value that comes to his products attaches itself to the gold that is in them.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

The veteran actor witnessed the evolution of the film industry, which helped in his Oscar-nominated turn as a composited studio boss in 2013’s best picture winner “Argo.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2023

Many minor characters from Dickens’ book are composited or eliminated altogether—and with good reason, since otherwise the cast list would be at least double the size.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2020

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

Right: True Tone in yellow light composited into the blue light image.

From The Verge Jul. 13, 2018

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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