as in member
one of the parts that make up a whole
the soil contained all of the necessary constituents for growing crops
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Recent Examples of constituent
Christine Ro, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Before Republican House members decided to stop holding Town Halls, thousands of their constituents loudly denounced DOGE’s layoffs of federal workers.
—Gary Phelan, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Some lawmakers been bombarded with constituent phone calls and voters at town halls who are angry at the dramatic cuts to the federal government.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Part of why politicians in wealthy countries are currently treating aid as an easy target is because so many of their constituents are struggling, and feel that sending money to other countries is unfair.
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Water extracted from ice could serve multiple purposes for astronauts, not only as drinking water but also for producing rocket fuel by splitting water molecules into their constituent parts — oxygen and hydrogen.
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The members of the group who survived (Spencer Lord, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, and Danny Ramirez) have gathered to mourn their fallen companions and make new plans, possibly involving a new sanctuary in Seattle.—
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Illinois’ 17-member House delegation is made up of 14 Democrats and three Republicans.—
Adjective
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And as Golosio and his team knew, an ANN designed around a multi-component working memory model could be a powerful tool for processing and creating human-like communication.—
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Perceptual convergence of multi-component mixtures in olfaction implies an olfactory white.—
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The team at Clementine Sleepwear explains that through a Micellar Molecular Delivery System, these skin loving ingredients are activated upon contact with skin.—
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These efficacious, natural ingredients include chamomile, California poppy, lemon verbena, linden, magnesium, rosemary and cardamom.—
Adjective
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Conservatives typically treasure civic institutions as a storehouse of ancestral wisdom; those on the left have championed universal rights, individual freedoms and the vox populi.—
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This comes just a few days after Derrick White overtook Isaiah Thomas for the most individual threes in a season in Celtics’ franchise history.—
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After the Entrada, there are traces of Teotihuacan’s presence all over Tikal, from royal burials in a necropolis to distinctly Mexican architecture mixed with Maya elements in a complex of residential and ceremonial buildings near the heart of the city.—
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On the other hand, there are elements of youth and inexperience that can only be felt in my shows in the past, perhaps my fans can find entertainment in my growth as well.—
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These advisories can be based on a range of factors, including political unrest, crime, health risks, or, in this case, immigration enforcement practices.—
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The inspiration to dance, or move, may be an important factor that goes further than just inducing the right kind of mood.—
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“Constituent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constituent. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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