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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by mjw_byrne on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:11AM (#35842115)
There are other common examples of active and passive meaning the same thing. "The document is printing" and "the document is being printed", for example. It has no merit other than a popular consensus that it's correct, which is all that's required.
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