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composite

[kuhm-poz-it] / kəmˈpɒz ɪt /




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But there’s nothing charming about composite decking, which is what I found myself researching when our wood started rotting under the weight of New England winter.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Major U.S. stock indexes fell to end a volatile week, with the S&P 500 dropping 0.5% and the Nasdaq composite falling 0.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It sounds touchy-feely, but it’s profitable,” said the 55-year-old Gund, whose grandfather, Ed Gund, a former candy salesman, started the composite materials company in 1951.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The IDX would also remove "all shares with high shareholding concentration from the composite stock price index" to provide a more reasonable picture of JCI movements.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The torsion on the clamp snapped the strong composite like a brittle twig.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Investors gave “clearly negative” feedback on the French insurer, despite it being Berenberg’s top pick among European composites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

Silphium, sil′fi-um, n. a genus of American composites with resinous juice—prairie-dock, cup-plant, rosin-weed: an umbelliferous plant whose juice the ancient Greeks used—the Latin laserpitium.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Many viewers assumed the photos were AI-generated or composited, but every detail was achieved in camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

Right: True Tone in yellow light composited into the blue light image.

From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2018

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

Henderson worked on the show with Will Anderson, the former as a stop-motion animator, the latter on digital animation, 2-D animation, compositing and finishing shots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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 assemblages of animals and plants compositing that fauna and flora did not appear in the area they now inhabit simultaneously, but at several distinct points in time.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt


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