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composition

[kom-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌkɒm pəˈzɪʃ ən /




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Other highly exposed majors included management information systems and majors related to rhetoric, composition and writing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

"Gyms offer broader types of exercise, like resistance training, which can improve body composition and shape more quickly than aerobic exercise training," explains exercise expert Dr Andrew Scott, from the University of Portsmouth.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It is a sentiment that is on full display in this book, which also reflects the somber mood of its wartime composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The challenge is learning how to translate those infrared signals into reliable estimates of composition.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

It was all purple and white and yellow, like some artist had designed an impossible bloom without worrying about composition, like he went wild and let it all go.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Warner’s agreement with Suno, for example, lets artists opt in to having their names, likenesses, voices and compositions used in AI-generated music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

That behavioral change provided evidence that cats can perceive differences among individual BFA compositions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

A New Englander deeply influenced by his reading of the Transcendentalists, Ives went into the insurance business while continuing to compose music, though his compositions weren’t widely performed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

One of his new compositions, he said, came from a time he had remembered living on Bracken Road in Port Talbot and his mother had made him lemon curd sandwiches.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Oh, I passed English all right. It was mostly literature, though. I only wrote about two compositions the whole term," I said.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger




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