composite

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Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

This makes it especially promising for sensing applications and advanced composite materials.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Stock futures were down slightly, following a Thursday slump that sent the Nasdaq composite into correction territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The S&P 500 added 0.5%, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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