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[suhb-jikt, suhb-jekt] / ˈsʌb dʒɪkt, səbˈdʒɛkt /






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Compounded drugs aren’t subject to the same review for safety, effectiveness and quality as approved pharmaceuticals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The average star of WWE or AEW signs on as an independent contractor, meaning they are responsible for their own health insurance and are subject to being fired for nearly any cause.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

He wore a bulletproof vest during his first trial in 2020, which was also subject to heightened security measures.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

That earlier building mess had been the subject of several inspector-general reviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

There was an unspoken rule in the Masters household: The deaths of his mother and sister were not to be talked about, because the subject opened sores that hurt for days.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Government and social studies and Texas history were my favorite subjects.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Karl van Bibber, a Berkeley professor of nuclear engineering, served as Seiler's informal adviser on subjects ranging from X-ray imaging to scientific publishing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

There are thousands of masterpiece portraits whose subjects remain unidentified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Since the law’s voter-approved repeal, students receiving bilingual instruction have demonstrated higher academic achievement across subjects and higher rates of English proficiency compared with students who received instruction in English only, Garcia Bedolla said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Marshall, after all, was well aware of Darrach’s reputation for revealing the most intimate details of the lives of his subjects.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

They have lived by hunting, fishing and reindeer herding for thousands of years, and been subjected to colonisation for centuries.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

In promoting the program, Florida said that it was intended for people who had “been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias within American society.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Pyrobitumen is an insoluble form of organic carbon that develops when buried crude oil or kerogen -- a source material for natural gas -- is subjected to intense heating deep below the surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Whatever miscommunication, whatever poor information, they should not have been subjected to this ongoing trauma and distress, and I can only apologise genuinely for that."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

But she had not been treated with neutrons, and obviously was not the first patient subjected to neutron therapy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses the university of failing to protect pro-Palestinian students from attacks by external groups and of subjecting those students to unnecessary scrutiny and discrimination on campus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

It would also make it an offence to remove a person from Northern Ireland for the purposes of subjecting them to conversion practices.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Those doubling down, however, are subjecting themselves to public wrath.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

“By cutting education,” she asked, “aren’t we subjecting our kids to the same fate that we’re all living right now?”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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