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Flags of Our Fathers
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- "Disembark" hardly suggests the lethal difficulty of the first component in this sequence.†
Chpt 5. *
- Far from simply translocating from the studio to nearby Arlington, the sculptor's completed plaster mold would have to be broken down into component parts—eighteen one-ton sections for each plaster figure—and transported by truck to a Brooklyn foundry for casting into bronze.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(component) a self-contained part of something that when combined with other parts makes something that is larger or more complex
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will also describe more specialized senses of component.