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Discounted oil has constituted a large part of India's imports, surging twelve-fold in the period.

From Reuters • May 4, 2023

Groundwater has constituted about 10% of L.A.’s overall supply of drinking water in the last five years, Liu said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Since 2014, no one racial or ethnic group has constituted a majority of California’s population.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2020

Hersh’s reporting over the past half-century has constituted an alternative history of modern America.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2018

The Square.—The square is, probably, the oldest of all tools, and that, together with the compass, or dividers, with which the square is always associated, has constituted the craftsman's emblem from the earliest historical times.

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