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The lease payments under those arrangements are expected to constitute a significant portion of SB Energy’s near-term revenue, the company said in its IPO filing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The court has also recognized that a desire to observe a particular animal species can constitute a legally cognizable interest.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

On top of its potential communicative importance and intrinsic value as a cultural behavior, accumulative stone throwing involves durable primate material culture, the loss of which would constitute the erasure of primate heritage.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Not surprisingly, these feelings constitute a formidable block to numeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Budapest's promise of pragmatic co-operation was worth absolutely nothing, he complained, adding that Hungary's "extremely unfriendly step constitutes an unprecedented and ungrounded escalation".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of the deals violates federal law and constitutes an illegal payout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hoskins said in an interview that the rulings reflected differences of opinion over what constitutes fair and accurate language, noting that the appellate courts had also sometimes rejected revisions made or approved by lower courts.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Even my chicken-tasting panel had thoughts about what constitutes an actual Cane’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

I need to know what constitutes breaking up forever.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

When the Rams won Super Bowl LVI, inside their home stadium in Inglewood, Calif., it constituted absolute vindication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The union argued in the lawsuit that it constituted “a transfer of wealth from the workers to their employers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

In its report, the committee said it had tasked itself with establishing "what constituted 'due process' when it came to political appointments".

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

And yet persons here and there declined to migrate; that, even to those involved, constituted a perplexing irrationality.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond