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comprise

[kuhm-prahyz] / kəmˈpraɪz /


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“There are many fine law firms that comprise many fine professionals, who are trying to serve clients in what can appear to be very similar ways,” said Heather McDevitt, chair of White & Case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

While the affected goods only comprise about 5% of Canada’s exports to the U.S., “politically the rupture is considerably larger,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, said in a weekend note.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

"Those 5,000 people comprise a community. Not just men and women under stress. It's a community under stress."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Cases in the U.S. comprise only the smallest fraction of those numbers, with annual deaths usually in the low hundreds and diagnosed cases in the thousands.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions—we can alter the way we thin-slice—by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Richard Booth, station manager for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, told the BBC the building, which comprises several businesses and residential flats, was "not safe to go into".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

A third floor comprises the master bedroom, surrounded by three decks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

As Herzog moves the sisters between reality and film’s dreamy latter half, he plunges into the fizzy static that comprises their cosmic connection, examining their solitude as only he can.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

This unexpected request prompts a flashback to Graham’s military posting in postwar Austria, which comprises the heart of the novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The campaign for sainthood is being led by the Fr Willie Doyle Association, a Dublin-based group comprised mostly of lay people but supported by the clergy.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The transaction implies a total enterprise value of approximately $7.7 billion, comprised of an equity purchase price of approximately $4.6 billion and approximately $3.1 billion of debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

If horror is “flesh and fluids,” then the flesh of this movie is a body comprised of nebulous ideas.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

According to data from Circana, they comprised 1.6% of women’s total footwear sales for the 12 months ending in June; that was a bit up from 1.4% a year ago.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

In turn, the Wampanoag were part of a tripartite alliance with two other confederations: the Nauset, which comprised some thirty groups on Cape Cod; and the Massachusett, several dozen villages clustered around Massachusetts Bay.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Utilities in Southern states asked for $2.2 billion in rate hikes during the third quarter, according to PowerLines, comprising the steepest requests in the country.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

World Series Cricket lasted for two seasons – 1977-78 and 1978-79 – comprising one-day matches and 'SuperTests' between teams representing Australia, West Indies and a World XI.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

By researching court records and newspapers, Mr. White discovered new information about this important neighborhood, comprising some 264 people in 1855, which was torn down during the construction of Central Park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

With his passing, he evaded the overwhelming consequence of his success: the challenge of consolidating a polyglot empire unprecedented in size and comprising peoples who, by and large, despised each other.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro


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