comprising
- present participle of comprise.
Example Sentences
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When the agreement went into effect in October 2025, the Yellow Line marked off territory comprising about 53% of Gaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The group had successfully held a run in May, with social media posts showing a crowd, comprising many foreigners, jogging on the streets with headphones.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The number of leveraged ETF launches in particular surged in June to 117, comprising almost half the total 239 exchange-traded funds launched that month in the U.S., according to data provided by Morningstar.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Three years later, as war dragged on, a group comprising members of the North’s major Protestant denominations urged a change to the preamble of the U.S.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
Oddly for someone who had been rubbing shoulders with physicists for nearly twenty years, Weaver mistakenly described the beam in his diary as comprising 5-million-volt “electrons”—particles that were not in the cyclotrons inventory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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