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consist

[kuhn-sist, kon-sist] / kənˈsɪst, ˈkɒn sɪst /


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Instead of being powered by the nuclear fusion that fuels ordinary stars, the object may consist of an extremely dense cloud of gas energized by a black hole at its center.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Overlapping action figures, posters and teddy bears also cover Martin's walls and ceilings – his collectables consist of "anything unusual", but he's mostly inspired by Hollywood.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Kinjo says that reefs flanking his seaside farm consist entirely of corals he cultivated, with their natural peers "no longer able to keep up with a tremendous increase in stress" in the anthropogenically polluted ocean.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Its walls, made in a Tijuana factory, consist of plywood panels insulated with foam.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

And teosinte, unlike wild wheat and rice, is not a practical food source; its “ears” are scarcely an inch long and consist of seven to twelve hard, woody seeds.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Massive Attack, which consists of Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall, described the event as a “surreal experience” in a post on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Constant, standing on a striped rock, consists of two color patches; the rest is largely blue sea, topped by a light-gray strip of sky.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Will she closely follow her predecessor's agenda or does she have different priorities for a city region which consists of 10 boroughs and is home to more than two million people?

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

He noted that for Mastercard’s customer base, which consists of financial-services players, the company’s open standard for stablecoins “provides direct participation, reduced dependency on third parties and the benefits of distributed economics.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

The next group of areas consists of ones that did domesticate at least a couple of local plants or animals, but where food production depended mainly on crops and animals that were domesticated elsewhere.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The men were released, and she wanted them to perform with her dance company on the outside, Figures in Flight, which consisted of a dozen teenage girls.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

The added marker consisted of three copies of an eight-amino-acid sequence known as a 3xFLAG-tag.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

On the import side, India imported $11.7bn from the UK, and over 45% consisted of silver, which remains on India's exclusion list and is outside the agreement.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The final summit declaration consisted of six concise paragraphs, mirroring the brevity of the 2025 Hague Summit declaration.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The young man in charge was perhaps a qualified eye doctor, but his entire equipment consisted of a box of framed glasses, from gold-rimmed bifocals to a plastic-framed child’s pair.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Welcome to its new “AI Creator TV” channel, now available on the app’s streaming service and consisting exclusively of app-generated films and shows, along with commercials that feature “synthetic performers.”

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

The company’s largest segment is connectivity, a unit primarily consisting of its Starlink service, which uses a constellation of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide high-speed internet connections.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

When the camera detects a violation, it generates an evidence package, consisting of the date, time and location, as well as still images.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Excavations uncovered a funerary complex consisting of three limestone burial chambers containing Roman-era mummies and decorated wooden sarcophagi.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Soon after five P.M. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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