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He said those protections did not constitute institutional endorsement of every speaker’s views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Yormark believes a positive experience for fans and players would constitute success, plus an exciting game.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Indeed, a White House official told ProPublica that Dans’ consulting work did not constitute a conflict of interest for that very reason.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Kyaw Moe Tun's continued representation of Myanmar at the United Nations does not constitute formal recognition of his legitimacy," the ministry said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The new cells resulting from these divisions have the same ability to escape control, and in time enough such cells have accumulated to constitute a cancer.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
I am not here to argue that this constitutes thrift.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Bessent's plan constitutes a "forced effort that's too obvious," O'Hare said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
After all, Miriam may have been despised by everyone who actually knew her, but she still constitutes the family business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It will then require approval from full council because it constitutes a change to the authority's annual budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
It constitutes a kind of psychological illusion to which innumerate people are particularly prone.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
To his new coach, the spectacular move constituted a cardinal sin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A Greenlandic commission is to present a highly anticipated report Friday to determine whether Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of the Arctic island's indigenous Inuit constituted a "genocide".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The union argued in the lawsuit that it constituted “a transfer of wealth from the workers to their employers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The judge added: "It constituted an appalling betrayal of trust."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
And yet persons here and there declined to migrate; that, even to those involved, constituted a perplexing irrationality.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive... trading act constituting market manipulation".
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
According to McKinsey & Co., the total quantum industry — computing, communications and sensing — could grow into a $97 billion market by 2035, with quantum computing constituting the lion’s share.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
He proposed that home and work are our first and second “places,” with “people places” designed to strengthen local ties and foster the common good constituting these “third” spaces.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
That ruling said that camping and sleeping ordinances violate the 8th Amendment by constituting cruel and unusual punishment for people who had no other place to go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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