composite
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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite were in the red in early trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
U.S. stocks fell for a second day in a row, with the Nasdaq composite leading indexes lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"It's a composite image. Each member of this family has several prototypes," the guide explained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
And behind that was a composite toolbox, the opening of the lid sealed with black electrical tape.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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 also plays a large role in pesticides, chemicals for drilling and refining, and the specialized compounds, coatings and composites used in advanced electronics and defense manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
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
People who inhabit the frontier of two languages, and in fact all who are in any degree bilingual, must inevitably form such composites occasionally.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
“We composited the flawed live-action material on top of the CG,” Bashore says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
The more people are represented in the composited excreta, the cheaper the technology gets and the more powerful public health protection becomes.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
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
That was too wonderful, Mamma, everything happening in a vast room on one floor; compositing, typewriting, printing, and sorting.
From Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn
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