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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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The Nasdaq composite jumped 1.2%, while the S&P 500 advanced 0.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In stocks, the Nasdaq composite added 0.2%, while the Dow industrials fell 0.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Apple all ended the quarter with gains of more than 10%, lifting the Nasdaq composite by 2.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In fact, the last composite PMI showed the strongest growth, Covid excepted, since 2015.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The airframe of a jet fighter like an F-35 is mostly constructed from composites, aluminum, and titanium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Gomez’s paintings are not based on spontaneous discoveries but on composites of photos he’s taken around the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

The “industry demand backdrop is red hot,” wrote William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma on Thursday, adding that Seemann is a leader in advanced composites.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

One might readily expect them to be able to live upon other composites upon which they are found, but it seems a bit strange that they should be recorded as being "especially fond of mallows."

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

She does concede now that some timelines have been altered and characters composited.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Many minor characters from Dickens’ book are composited or eliminated altogether—and with good reason, since otherwise the cast list would be at least double the size.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2020

The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019

Those are all people that I ran into and those were all stuff that was composited.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2015

On August 15, 1950, leaf samples for chemical analyses were taken from each tree in all replications and composited by treatments into six samples.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The featurettes include words from the director, production designer Jess Gonchor, visual effect supervisor Scott Farrar, compositing supervisor Chris Balog, cinematographer Polly Morgan, to name a few, and all of the primary cast.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2021

The philosophy for the VFX was rooted in in-camera shooting — to harness compositing or CG only when necessary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2021

Collage, as a technique, anticipates the generalized stage of sampling and compositing.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin




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