constitute

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Of these, roughly 263 million are outside the education system and constitute the potential young workforce.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

With opening day barely a week away, that has left U.S. manager Mark DeRosa with limited options to finish a tournament where anything less than victory will constitute failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

It does not constitute personalized investment, tax, legal, or financial advice.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

These actions would constitute egregious breaches of professional ethics—clearer-cut violations, in fact, than the conduct that triggered the accusations against him.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

Still more mainlanders arrived after 1945, especially after the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists in 1949, so that aborigines now constitute only 2 percent of Taiwan’s population.

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