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were components
noun
A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
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They were "components of a business," he said.
In fact, Krugman has been conflating two distinct ideas as if both were components of "progressive" thinking.
If coolness and decisiveness under pressure were components of Lyndon Johnson's character, however, there were, as always with Johnson, other, contrasting components.
Mr. Merrill's attorney argued that his client did not send the faxes and that the seized items were components for fireworks.
Until the close of the 20th century, the only planets to be recognized were components of Earth's solar system.
When I was 16 I found I couldn't actually paint, so I started organising people on stage as if they were components in a painting - and from there I fell into theatre.
While several officials said the intelligence agencies expressed medium to high confidence about its overall assessment, two intelligence officials noted that there were components of the assessment about which the agencies were less certain.
Naturally, these hominid populations did not exist in a vacuum but were components of complex, evolving ecosystems.
All these genes were components of a putative operon (cusCFBA) that determined an efflux pump for copper and silver ions.
"There were components of that first half that weren't good enough, but I thought overall there were a lot more positives than negatives to take from the game.
Warne and Schifko (1999) mention that surfactants and sodium silicates are the main contributors to detergent toxicity, and were components of the three detergents evaluated in this study.
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