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be made of

verb as in compose

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Leaving aside the fact that the details of this method would have made it so egregiously complicated that it would have been rejected by the writers of “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Cyber Ninjas announced that they could hunt for these fake ballots by looking for paper containing bamboo fibers — because if paper was printed in China, it must, of course, be made of bamboo.

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A hot dog, Washington says, will not be made of dogs.

While much will be made of the film’s 3½-hour running time, which includes an overture and intermission, it never strains under its own weight.

“I remember being completely shocked seeing that kind of black dragon that seemed to be made of chains, hanging from the ceiling without understanding what was happening,” Álvarez, 46, recalls in the Rioplatense Spanish that characterizes both Uruguayans and Argentines, during a conversation in an outdoor lounge area at his airy home in Los Feliz.

"Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes," wrote Team USA Olympic runner Paul Chelimo on X/Twitter at the time.

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