composite
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Authorities later released three images of a composite face the FBI created in the hope of identifying the person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Stocks ended higher, with the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq composite all ticking up 0.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the composite view, Earth moves diagonally from the upper left toward the lower right.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
A slump in chip stocks, for example, weighed on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite entering this reporting season, even as the Dow industrials climbed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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 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
Helenium.—Showy composites of free growth in lightish soil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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
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
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
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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