constituent
Example Sentences
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As the name implies, equal weighting gives each index constituent the same allocation, instead of ranking by market cap.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Nasdaq said updates aren’t expected to impact constituent or weighting changes until the next index rebalancing, scheduled for June 22.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
DHS was and is less than the sum of its constituent parts.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
"The EU cannot be a Great Power, nor can any of its constituent nations," he argues.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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