Synonyms for contains
con·tains

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1. List of paraphrases for "contains":

   includes, contain, provides, comprises, presents, consists, incorporates, contained, involves, holds, containing, makes, contient, therein, covers, encompasses, has, gives

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1. Mehmood Aslam:

   The local cotton contains a lot of trash and other contaminations due to the extreme weather conditions. Therefore its ginning yield has fallen and production costs have escalated.

2. The Palestinians:

   It is deeply imbalanced and contains many elements that are not conducive to negotiations between the parties, including unconstructive deadlines that take no account of Israel’s legitimate security concerns.

3. Alfred North Whitehead:

   The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

4. Norman R. Augustine:

   A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

5. Philip Greenspun:

   Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.