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
The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 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
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
Didacticism often subsumes narrative, with popular titles including Hands Are Not for Hitting and Everyone Poops.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025
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
His résumé reveals a long career as an ensemble player, a sidekick, lately a dad, nearly always an actor who subsumes himself to the character.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
“Matrix,” meanwhile, subsumes us in a mythical world surrounded by real-life monsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
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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The fake world has subsumed the real world, eradicating it and leaving nothing in its place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
But pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, says they have been subsumed by the "existential threat" of the trade war with the US.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Fuerte for that reason was a characteristic subsumed by the last of the three qualities, and the one I most often considered—formal.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
And as their A.I. gets better, it may well end up subsuming some of the products and features developers are building with the technology today.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2023
Since then, the parent company has flourished, spinning off fresh categories, subsuming established distance races and hosting multiple events every weekend all over the world.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 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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