- present tense form of constitute (3rd person singular).
constitutes
Example Sentences
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The Constitutional Council said it had found that Article 1 of the legislation "constitutes an infringement that is neither appropriate, necessary, nor proportionate" to the freedom of expression and communication for under-15s.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
This constitutes a tax-free invisible “income” stream, which the government sometimes likes to call “owner’s equivalent rent.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 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
Yet I can’t call it one of Mr. Nolan’s best pictures; nor is it as satisfying as Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which constitutes perhaps its nearest contemporary equivalent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Their prominence constitutes a strong argument for an infusion of healthy skepticism into our schools, a state of mind generally incompatible with innumeracy.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
