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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
comprise .
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Examples
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Even this title comprises a larger area than is technically covered by the term Sayings of Jesus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The work under this title comprises five books, the first three generally accepted as genuine, the last two sometimes regarded as doubtful.
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-- The term comprises statutes, constitutional provisions, [1585] municipal ordinances, [1586] and administrative regulations having the force and operation of statutes. [
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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The moral infrastructure, and the system of norms it comprises, is largely a consequence of systems of widely shared belief.
Ethics as Infrastructure, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The majority of the mass that any lunar mission comprises is propellant, largely liquid oxygen.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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That formal term comprises two documents: the living will, which lays out your treatment preferences, and the durable power of attorney for health care, which designates a proxy -- a person to speak for you should you become incapacitated.
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This letter comprises the initial of the German word "zivil," and means that the wearer is neither a criminal nor a military prisoner.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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The name _Zeus_, in Greek, like that of _God_, in English, comprises very diverse views of divine personality.
Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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With us, the lowest amount of education that ever receives the name comprises at least the three R's, as they are termed, -- Reading, Writing, and
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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Generally speaking, the Mackenzie District lies north of Albert and Saskatchewan; Keewatin, north of Manitoba and Franklin comprises Canada's Arctic Islands.
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