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From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
He insisted that didn't constitute a change, saying he had been "pushing on this issue" since his first day in office.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Columbia Law School business professor Eric Talley added: “This doesn’t constitute Paramount Skydance coming out and waving a big white flag — but it is a small white flag of surrender.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
This time on the road is particularly evident in the six weather-focused, dreamily atmospheric paintings that constitute the exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The robin sings flexible songs, containing a variety of motifs that he rearranges to his liking; the notes in each motif constitute the syntax, and the possibilities for variation produce a considerable repertoire.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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More generally, I am not sure what constitutes an emolument.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is that these environments may foster a blinkered way of thinking about institutions, social provision and what constitutes a normal standard of living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
This constitutes a tax-free invisible “income” stream, which the government sometimes likes to call “owner’s equivalent rent.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It does not specify what constitutes hate speech, how it will be defined, on what criteria, or how those who produce such speech will be identified," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Even if one intended to rely on Evidence-Indices, how can one tell what constitutes a good argument?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The judge added: "It constituted an appalling betrayal of trust."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The authorities are trying to determine whether the activity constituted fraud, one of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
It did find that the contract with ASF Solutions constituted a conflict of interest, but did not elaborate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
I had spent years learning about Bigger, what had made him, what he meant; so, when the time came for writing, what had made him and what he meant constituted my plot.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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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
This isn’t just an expensive proposition — it’s also a psychological danger, constituting behavior that is likely to get men to withdraw from the real world and attachments to real people.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 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
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
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