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“There are many fine law firms that comprise many fine professionals, who are trying to serve clients in what can appear to be very similar ways,” said Heather McDevitt, chair of White & Case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The 100 million barrels will comprise a mix of diesel and crude oil.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
She describes them in two manuscripts, which together comprise the earliest texts known to have been written in English by a woman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
These folks comprise the wealthiest generation in history: According to the Federal Reserve, baby boomers control $90 trillion in assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
The company owns factories, machinery and showrooms, and employs mechanics, accountants and secretaries, but all these together do not comprise Peugeot.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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A third floor comprises the master bedroom, surrounded by three decks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The work, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, is part of a wider Lost Woods restoration programme which Epsom said comprises "19 individual projects".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
As Herzog moves the sisters between reality and film’s dreamy latter half, he plunges into the fizzy static that comprises their cosmic connection, examining their solitude as only he can.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
This unexpected request prompts a flashback to Graham’s military posting in postwar Austria, which comprises the heart of the novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
This list comprises the basic elements of music as we understand them in Western culture.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The team is comprised of two Nasa astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian astronaut whose wife is expecting their third child two months into the mission.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The transaction implies a total enterprise value of approximately $7.7 billion, comprised of an equity purchase price of approximately $4.6 billion and approximately $3.1 billion of debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Independent Grocers Alliance, comprised of 7,500 supermarkets, says fuel is 15% to 30% of the total cost of food.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
If horror is “flesh and fluids,” then the flesh of this movie is a body comprised of nebulous ideas.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Utilities in Southern states asked for $2.2 billion in rate hikes during the third quarter, according to PowerLines, comprising the steepest requests in the country.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Palestinians call for the territory to be part of their hoped-for independent state comprising the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The council owns a County Farms Estate, comprising about 16,500 acres and 149 holdings for tenants.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
There is an underlying force that drives together the several creatures comprising myxotricha, and, then drives the assemblage into union with the termite.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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