subsume

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The novel echoes thinkers like Hannah Arendt in pointing out how true-believing functionaries, the butt of ridicule in “normal” times, can help subsume all reason and decency to usurp a compliant and too-comfortable ruling class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

So far, they’ve defied my efforts to subsume them that way.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022

But we draw attention only to that one of these latter concepts, under which we wish to subsume the first, and let the others remain unobserved, or keep them concealed.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur