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Cornell says silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“The unauthorized use of our restaurant premises, signage, logos, or any other proprietary elements in your content may constitute a violation of our intellectual property rights.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Whether the mine detonations constitute an armistice violation is less clear cut, said Shin Jong-woo, who served in South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff more than a decade ago when another land-mine incident occurred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

He would say, “Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

It constitutes a harrowing chapter in “Serling,” a biography by Alan Sepinwall that mixes a cradle-to-grave chronicle with smart observation and analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The plaintiffs argue “excessive and unsustainable” pumping by the state Department of Water Resources constitutes a “wasteful and unreasonable use of water.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Time to cut loose - or what constitutes cutting loose for a team that has lost their ability to score.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"The tool may pick up something particular in the writing, something repetitive, but that might be exactly what constitutes a writer's style," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 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

Men and boys constituted the majority of reported missing persons.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

It condemned all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and reiterated that sexual slavery of boys, and child marriages and forced forced marriages constituted human rights abuses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia reasoned that attaching the GPS device constituted such a tort and therefore fell within the scope of the Fourth Amendment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The tech companies say their actions constituted fair use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Prosecutors contend that the Paramount deal would reach and, in some cases, exceed established thresholds, constituting violations of the century-old Clayton Antitrust Act that was adopted to protect markets and consumers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

Public health experts have gone so far as to describe social isolation and loneliness as constituting a public health crisis in the United States.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025

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