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On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Collectively, they constitute a really big source of human-caused climate change,” said Emily Williams, the lead author and a climate scientist at UC Merced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“You only tap such capital when there is an emergency. The 10-year bond trading at 4.7% and the 30-year bond trading at 5.2% hardly constitute as one,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

“It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Gen. Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of the deals violates federal law and constitutes an illegal payout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hoskins said in an interview that the rulings reflected differences of opinion over what constitutes fair and accurate language, noting that the appellate courts had also sometimes rejected revisions made or approved by lower courts.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Even my chicken-tasting panel had thoughts about what constitutes an actual Cane’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Another oncologist chided the FDA for failing to establish a precise benchmark for determining what constitutes a benefit of “large magnitude.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Despite the multiple vantage points and implausible bird’s-eye view, the image works because it constitutes a self-contained reality.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

The investigation is looking into whether private-credit deals involving his companies constituted fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The judge added: "It constituted an appalling betrayal of trust."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

After receiving complaints, Santa Monica in November ordered Waymo to stop operating the stations overnight, arguing that the sounds and lights violated municipal regulations and constituted a public nuisance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The ANJ said the site's continued availability -- where betting odds on different events are updated in real time -- constituted advertising.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

This sud- den revolution in connectivity constituted a major flattening force.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

KP.3.1.1 is now the single most common coronavirus strain circulating nationwide, constituting an estimated 36.8% of specimens for the two-week period that ended Saturday, up from 12.7% a month ago, CDC data show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings.

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