as in to comprise
to be made up of
those cookies consist of flour, butter, sugar, chocolate, and vanilla
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Meanwhile, community members in Ingersoll expressed concern over job stability in the current landscape, with the plant’s 1,300 employees comprising a significant chunk of the area's roughly 11,000 residents.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025 -
Beatens stars opposite a high profile cast, comprising Juliet Stevenson as the U.S. Secretary of State, Arash Marandi, who plays the Iranian foreign minister, alongside Sam Crane, Anthony Azizi and Alexander Behrang Keshtkar.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2025
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Florida must find a way to contain the highly productive frontcourt of Derik Queen and Julian Reese.—
Tobias Bass,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Since Wednesday, firefighters have been able to make progress and have started to contain the fires.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Other cast members include Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn, Keyla Mejia and Nicholas Stoller.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2025
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To be fair, many of those — including emerging aces Tanner Bibee, Logan Gilbert, Mackenzie Gore and Paul Skenes along with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shota Imanaga, who started in their native Japan when the Dodgers and Cubs opened in Tokyo last week — are no-doubters.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Consist (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consist%20%28of%29. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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