How to Use consist in in a Sentence
consist in
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Margins may be minute, and trading often consisting in further festival placements.
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Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 Aug. 2025
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Munger’s partner Warren Buffett famously said his job consisted in being fearful in those seasons when others are greedy and being greedy in those seasons when others are fearful.
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David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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The plaudit consists in a €10,000 ($11,700) in-kind award in post-production services granted by Barcelona’s Antaviana.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Sugimoto’s ecoformalism consists in challenging this self-flattering intuition.
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Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Lunar Exploration Analogue Deployment (LEAD) consisted in replicating scenarios of a lunar sample return mission.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2020
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