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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by panxyh on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:11PM (#35844963)
Yeah no, they are not total nonsense.
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by UncleMeat on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:35PM (#35845148)
That's my point. If you just look at phrases as meaning the sum of their words then this phrase makes no sense. But it is a phrase that has an understood meaning.
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