Did you know that bats comprise almost one quarter of all known mammal species?. From LearnThat.org.
When combined with missed furniture pickup the calls comprise more than one quarter of all complaint-and-service-related calls to the city's info hotline. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
I like a man who knows how to use the word comprise correctly. From Wordnik.com. [Strange deception] Reference
Nevertheless, spec titles comprise a relatively minuscule portion of the religious fiction market. From Wordnik.com. [deCOMPOSE] Reference
Primitive terms comprise variables and constants, whereas compound terms are formed by combining terms. From Wordnik.com. [Combinatory Logic] Reference
These web-based calls comprise a 30 minute presentation by a consultant and then a 30 minute questions and answer session. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
At a time when subtle, literate film comedies seem like an endangered species at best, these titles comprise a welcome breath of rarefied air. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'] Reference
Like a giant slush pile of digitally liberated books, these titles comprise gems of undiscovered brilliance alongside works that might make your eyes bleed. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Coker: Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter] Reference
In thoroughly feudal and aristocratic countries such as comprise. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Cf. definition 8 c. of "comprise" in your second edition OED, which doesn't mention any condemnation of it. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: JOURNAL OF WELSH STUDIES.] Reference
But be warned, under none of the cards being hawked as a "comprise" will turn up a winner for you, or me, or our kids, or their kids. From Wordnik.com. [Co-Ops: The Three-Card Monte of Health Reform] Reference
Should we accept current usage of "comprise" or hold to the classical meaning?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet SUSE] Reference
Can you take us through some of the verticals and the big assumptions that kind of comprise that range?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
How should we look at going forward and what kind of comprise that and then maybe just a tax rate here for 2009?. From Wordnik.com. [Telecom Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
In practice, treaties of all kinds are submitted regularly for such approval, save only such as comprise military conventions or foreign alliances. From Wordnik.com. [The Governments of Europe] Reference
Arabs, broadly defined, comprise 20 percent of Israel's population. From Wordnik.com. [Exit Olmert] Reference
Their conviction and its manifestations comprise the central theme of this book. From Wordnik.com. ['Aristocrats'] Reference
The sum all of these government programs comprise 63% of the entire spending package. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: The Mocha Cappuccino Party] Reference
(To this day the Gerth stories comprise about 80 percent of what we know about Whitewater.). From Wordnik.com. [The Whitewater Media Arc] Reference
Together they comprise about 30 percent of Indonesia's economy, and most are barely growing. From Wordnik.com. [The Biggest Sleeper] Reference
Almost all the Taliban are Pakhtoons who comprise more than 50 percent of the population of Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [International Mail Call: The Politics Of Dress] Reference
The fact is that foreign nationals comprise only 300 of the 5,000 insurgents being held in Iraqi prisons. From Wordnik.com. [HOW TO WIN THE 'NETWAR' IN IRAQ] Reference
The quiz assesses each of the five personality factors by examining six secondary traits that comprise each factor. From Wordnik.com. [Measure Your Entrepreneurial Instinct] Reference
In 1997, Latinos (who now comprise 82 percent of the city's 72,000 residents) gained control of the five-member council. From Wordnik.com. [Black versus Brown] Reference
Unemployment, now at 7.2 percent, has fallen steadily since 2005 and union workers comprise a mere 8 percent of the workplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer Of Sarkozy] Reference
Women comprise 13 percent of cabbies nationwide, but account for less than 1 percent of New York's 40,000 licensed cabdrivers. From Wordnik.com. [TAKING A FRONT SEAT] Reference
Together, they comprise about one-quarter of registered voters, in roughly equal numbers, according to pollster Sergio Bendixen. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign 2002'S Ground Zero] Reference
Among the four events that comprise women's gymnastics, vault is the one where Patterson's flaws in technique occasionally show up. From Wordnik.com. [CARLY & CO.] Reference
Now deeply rooted in Virginia, allies and disciples of the New Right founders comprise the North high command and on-hoard entourage. From Wordnik.com. [Rolling Thunder] Reference
These are the kinds of students, profoundly committed to Orthodoxy and social justice, who comprise Uri L'Tzedek's summer fellowship. From Wordnik.com. [Tali Adler: Social Justice and Orthodox Judaism] Reference
(Genes comprise DNA, which is a template that, after an intermediate step, directs the ordering of various amino acids into proteins.). From Wordnik.com. [Unlocking The Genetic Secrets Of Autism] Reference
The Storm That Struck Miami "is one of 70 songs that comprise the chilling new three-CD folk, country and blues set" People Take Warning!. From Wordnik.com. ['Come All You True People, a Story to Hear'] Reference
It will comprise the NATO countries, the Soviet Union, the three Baltic republics, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth Of A Now Nato] Reference
One positive aspect of the regulatory easing would allow deferred-tax assets to comprise up to 10% of common equity, Credit Suisse analyst. From Wordnik.com. [SMFG's Results Offer Hope for Japan Banks] Reference
All that growth means the bargains are gone and the money you've already put in foreign markets might now comprise too much of your portfolio. From Wordnik.com. [Capital Ideas] Reference
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