constituent
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The German DAX slipped 0.15% as the index’s second largest constituent, Siemens, nudged down 0.3% after falling 6.4% Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
These are comparisons of forward price/earnings ratios for the indexes, which are constituent companies’ prices divided by rolling consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by LSEG, weighted by market capitalization.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Vicky Roe, another constituent who voted for Jenrick, was another who said she was "not surprised" by the reports of his plans to defect.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
Quoting Alexander Hamilton, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed, “’The United States and its constituent States, unlike foreign nations, are ‘kindred systems, parts of ONE WHOLE.’
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025
“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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