constitute
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed that it was a telecommunications outage and that the ground stop did not constitute a national security threat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed that it was a telecommunication outage and that the ground stop did not constitute national security threat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
A Japan Tobacco spokeswoman said “temporary administration” doesn’t constitute nationalization or requisition, but declined to comment further on what the measure entails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Foma thinks the fact that Ivan can travel freely does not necessarily constitute a red flag.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Still more mainlanders arrived after 1945, especially after the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists in 1949, so that aborigines now constitute only 2 percent of Taiwan’s population.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Defending that line constitutes the Pentagon’s top China strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Whether or not robots dream of electric sheep, rapid advances in artificial intelligence have tech leaders and philosophers pondering what constitutes consciousness.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The investigation concluded that neither of the men did anything that constitutes a breach of the law.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The attack "constitutes a flagrant violation of maritime law and, more broadly, of the rules of navigation," Radev said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
They don't work on the Sabbath, but they have a fairly loose understanding of what constitutes "work" anyway and usually spend their free time dancing to jazz records.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Arakhamia, a Ukrainian MP who heads Zelensky's party in parliament who has also been part of the Ukrainian negotiating team, said the Oleshky ceasefire had constituted the "biggest de-escalation since 2022".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The top United Nations court will on November 19 deliver a landmark ruling on whether Myanmar's crackdown against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority constituted a genocide, officials said on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Race stewards said the medication was applied in error but still constituted a "serious breach", the Age reported.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
They alleged this spending constituted a misuse of funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Mainland Australia’s 300,000 hunter-gatherers were more numerous and less isolated than the Tasmanians but still constituted the smallest and most isolated human population of any of the continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Yet punitive damages are extremely rare, constituting fewer than 3% of all customer claims that have ever resulted in any award at Finra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The prosecutor general said Kozyura had agreed to share information "constituting state secrets" for financial reward and deserved the harshest punishment.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a "collusive... trading act constituting market manipulation".
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
According to McKinsey & Co., the total quantum industry — computing, communications and sensing — could grow into a $97 billion market by 2035, with quantum computing constituting the lion’s share.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
The enthusiasm Olmsted had identified during his travels, though still far from constituting a tidal wave, at last seemed to begin propelling visitors to Jackson Park.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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