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comprise

[kuhm-prahyz] / kəmˈpraɪz /


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The 100 million barrels will comprise a mix of diesel and crude oil.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Roughly 85 percent of water systems serve communities of fewer than 50,000, communities that together comprise less than 10 percent of the entire U.S. population.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

These comprise tenors of 1-3 years, 5-10 years and over 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

U.S. revenues now comprise 81% of the overall business, up from 73% last year, Palantir CFO David Glazer told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Why, as Arthur Eddington liked to ask, do the nuclei that comprise my elbow not slide effortlessly through the nuclei that comprise the table?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

In Newspeak it is called doublethink, although doublethink comprises much else as well.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The team is comprised of two Nasa astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian astronaut whose wife is expecting their third child two months into the mission.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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

The Independent Grocers Alliance, comprised of 7,500 supermarkets, says fuel is 15% to 30% of the total cost of food.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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

A line of men, comprised of players and audience alike, formed between the playhouse and the nearest drainage ditch.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

The Palestinians call for the territory to be part of their hoped-for independent state comprising the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It will feature six waves of participants with the first, comprising of elite runners, setting the pace at 10:10.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Last year, Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure, comprising over half of its $12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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

The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer


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