constitute
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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
Whether those processes constitute anything resembling belief remains an open scientific and philosophical question, not an established fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If it was, it could constitute a "serious violation" of the conditions of his house arrest, said justice Alexandre de Moraes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The bulk of these payments will flow to the roughly 150,000 farms that constitute the largest 10% of crop producers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
This was indeed a disturbing notion, for it was not hard to see that Miss Kenton's departure would constitute a professional loss of some magnitude, a loss Darlington Hall would have some difficulty recovering from.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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What constitutes “comparable or better,” the policy states, is determined by StubHub “in its sole discretion based on cost, quality, availability and other factors.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
What constitutes “fair use” of copyrighted works for training an AI model remains contentious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
After recounting the various permutations of a central bank throughout American history, he concluded that the Fed’s independence constitutes a “special arrangement sanctioned by history.”
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
Earlier, Alex Goodman KC, for Crowborough Shield, said the Home Office wrongly decided the need to accommodate asylum seekers constituted an "emergency" under planning rules, meaning it was automatically granted permission to develop the site.
From BBC ● 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
They discussed challenging FIFA’s use of slow-motion replay to decide whether Balogun’s stepping on an opponent’s ankle constituted a red-card offense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
There was no magisterial district in all of South Africa where whites constituted a majority of residents.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
County are natives of Mexico and Central America, Asian immigrants make up the second-largest group, constituting 16% of people in the county without legal authorization, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
The enthusiasm Olmsted had identified during his travels, though still far from constituting a tidal wave, at last seemed to begin propelling visitors to Jackson Park.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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