constituent

It’s pretty gloopy stuff, so it gets used in cosmetics and even winemaking, but it’s also the most common constituent in drilling fluids.

We're talking about a new generation of computers, the ultimate computer, a computer that computes on atoms, the ultimate constituents of matter itself.

And Americans today are more likely to believe their elected officials care more about winning those partisan skirmishes, and even enriching themselves, than they care about the act of listening and representing their constituents.