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“It’s as if the Centquatre is constituting a collection of monumental works that maintain a trace of exhibitions past,” said Mr. Gonçalves.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

In a word, medical science or biology is constituting itself, and if it be fully conscious of its impotence in the case of many diseases, it also knows its progressive improvement.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

He is constituting the science of that from which the state proceeds.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

But artistic writing is not so much reporting about the state of the world as it is constituting a different world, along with a context for interactions in this world.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai