subsume
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The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
Eventually, this observation takes on remarkable proportions as their lives subsume his own after he begins handling their public relations concerns.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024
To sustain this unity, one must subsume one’s own needs for the greater good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Hence the problem arises, 'How is it possible to subsume objects of empirical perception under pure conceptions?'
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
Says Dr. Wong: "In this new paper, we consider evolution in the broadest sense -- change over time -- which subsumes Darwinian evolution based upon the particulars of 'descent with modification.'"
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023
Erpenbeck writes “Kairos” in a skillfully volleying point of view that subsumes the perspectives of both its leads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Indeed, Drake’s work subsumes what would be a traditional approach based on the “male gaze” — reclaiming the ability for women to tell their own story on their own terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021
All the awkwardness they’ve never had finally subsumes them.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020
Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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You remember the rhythms and twinkly synths more than the melodies, and Madonna allows her own voice to be subsumed in the music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A woman in her position could very easily allow herself to be subsumed by the mechanism that protects celebrity.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
Eventually she is subsumed into this alien universe, a creature of nature who allows birds to roost on her chromium shoulder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
It was abolished in 2012 and subsumed into NHS England.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
The Kingdom of Armenia, for example, established Christianity as its official religion in 301, and Armenians held on to their religious independence even when they were subsumed into the later Persian and Arabic Empires.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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The tiny microphone has taken over city streets and college towns, while subsuming video-based social media entirely.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
His death allowed Franco to eliminate a rival and take control of the Falangists, subsuming them to a broader far-right movement that supported his dictatorship.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
The e-Tron GT maintains that philosophy, subsuming its electric tech under a voluptuous grand-tourer body and a comforting blanket of Audi luxury.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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