composite
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He offers the same recommendation when BofA’s Bull & Bear Indicator, a composite measure, rises above 8.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
He offers the same recommendation when BofA’s Bull & Bear Indicator, a composite measure, rises above 5.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
In the first half of 2026, a composite of global reinsurers generated an estimated roughly 20% return on equity, the second-highest first-half result in a decade, according to Gallagher Re.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The S&P 500 fell 0.5% and the Nasdaq composite slipped more than 1.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Orson Welles rehearses The Campbell Playhouse in this 1938 CBS publicity composite.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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Characters played by Banderas and Leo Woodall are composites of figures Bourdain knew during his time in Cape Cod.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
I have had exactly the same difficulties with the composites.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
Mara Wilson wrote, “And what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her? You couldn’t hire any of them?”
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2025
The veteran actor witnessed the evolution of the film industry, which helped in his Oscar-nominated turn as a composited studio boss in 2013’s best picture winner “Argo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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
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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