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This permanent group would issue a public report every year and consist of a rotating corps of private-sector talent serving one- or two-year tours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In many cases, these structures consist largely of air, yet they can produce striking whiteness without any pigment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
And looking back on individual albums, maybe 10 to 20 years later, I want them to consist of all the good memories that we’ve shared together, and I feel like that would be the legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The ballroom building would consist of the large entertaining space above ground and also a security complex below ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
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The tour currently consists of three stops in Europe but will later include U.S. shows, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Breakfast” typically consists of coffee and a protein bar eaten as she pulls out of the school drop-off line.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
I used to joke that 95% of investing success consists of knowing what not to do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The familiar matter that makes up people, planets, and nearly everything around us consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The group consists of six novelists and poets, four painters, five cameramen, two broadcasting technicians, fourteen Catholic priests, twelve Protestant ministers, five filmmakers, and more than one hundred journalists.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The second row consisted of Springbok Rugby World Cup winner Jean Kleyn and Arthur Clark, one of the league's best young locks.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The state’s license plate sequence for the past 46 years has consisted of one number, followed by three letters, followed by three numbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
What’s more interesting, then, is not the proposal itself, which consisted of only a sentence, but the reason Johnson felt the need to introduce the measure in the first place.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
The initial housing consisted of old military barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
It consisted of catching and destroying tsetse flies.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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The boat is named Rarebit, which is also the name of a traditional Welsh meal consisting of seasoned melted cheese sauce served over hot toast.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Scientists know of only one population, consisting of fewer than 50 individuals in an area smaller than a football pitch.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In connection with its restructuring, Zscaler said it would incur charges of about $30 million to $33 million, consisting mostly of employee and severance benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I generally do not charge a fee unless the package ends up consisting of lots of items that are not commissionable — which I try to avoid,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It became possible, for the first time in human evolution, to develop economically specialized societies consisting of non-food-producing specialists fed by food-producing peasants.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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