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subset

[suhb-set] / ˈsʌbˌsɛt /
NOUN
set that is part of a larger set
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK


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The team also tracked a subset of participants over several years to see how their brains changed with time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Logan’s office said Tuesday that a preliminary analysis of a subset of the administration’s list found many were born in the U.S., weren’t registered or had never voted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The survey identified a subset of respondents that it calls the vanguard, defined as CIOs who are delivering better performance on business outcomes while also reporting high CEO-perceived AI value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

These wealthier borrowers may also be better able to absorb those shocks, the company noted, “though a smaller subset may need extra support as their rates and payments adjust upward.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Unless you get the complete list of predictions or a randomly selected subset, the correct predictions mean nothing.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

"We had detected a weak positive relationship between deer and subsequent nymph abundance over short subsets of the data," said Ostfeld, "but the whole data set in its entirety shows no such thing."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Bhasin says certain at-risk subsets of the population should be screened, such as people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, men who have been treated with chemotherapy, or have chronic liver disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

He recognizes that terms like cure and functional cure could be applied in a carefully defined way in certain subsets of patients and be beneficial, but he’s just not ready to declare victory.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026

We decided to focus on two subsets of kids to help the Court grant relief if it wasn't ready to ban all life sentences without parole for juveniles.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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