One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World Factbook.
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Thomas Gase Note: Despite strong and continued objections to it, this meaning of comprise is now more frequent in general use than its earlier meaning. It is particularly common in the construction "to be comprised of," as in "The debate team is comprised of five members."
Teams are created to work on one specific project, and are comprised of people who have very different skills. Manufacturing comprises 14% of the state's economy.
COMPRISED definition: included or contained. See examples of comprised used in a sentence.
be comprised of somebody/something The committee is comprised of representatives from both the public and private sectors. The main meaning of comprise is ‘have somebody/something as parts or members’.
The phrase is comprised of, though increasingly common, remains nonstandard. Instead, try is composed of or consists of.” However, two important sources have a less strict stance on comprised of. Grammarly suspects that it’s slowly becoming standard usage.
be comprised of, to consist of; be composed of: The sales network is comprised of independent outlets and chain stores.
^ Traditionally, the whole comprised its parts, whereas the parts composed the whole. The Associated Press Stylebook advises journalists to maintain this distinction.