subset
Example Sentences
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The federal mandate applies to only a limited subset of enrollees, and Schmidt didn’t qualify, likely because she didn’t have enough chronic health conditions.
But the matter at hand may only be a subset of a broader ideology or worldview that creates a systematic distortion, not just about Iraq but about a whole complex of political issues.
From Salon
There are at least 14 known subsets, or “cliques,” with names such as Ballista Street, Blackwood Street, Northam Street and Dial Avenue, taken from areas where leaders live.
From Los Angeles Times
She says emerging research shows that only a "subset of flu-positive individuals actually shed infectious influenza virus into the air".
From BBC
Sun’s husband, Chris Hu, faces a subset of the charges in the same trial and his lawyers argue that his business activity was unrelated to her connections.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
