compose
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For proof, she was taken into a private teacher’s room, where through a one-way mirror she saw him compose himself shortly after her departure and start to play with the other children.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
You compose with your voice, and your document instantly takes shape.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The state ostensibly has a “merit selection” system, in which nominating commissions compose lists of the most qualified applicants for judgeships, and the governor chooses from the list.
From Slate • May 11, 2026
This routine begins to unravel into a quest for identity and existential meaning when Y is hired to compose a new patriotic anthem.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Its usage includes all national/governmental institutions of Orgoreyn, from the State as a whole through its thirty-three component substates or Districts to the sub-substates, townships, communal farms, mines, factories, and so on, that compose these.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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