subsume

Example Sentences

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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

The form of Education reaches its limits with the idea of punishment, because this is the attempt to subsume the negative reality and to make it conformable to its positive idea.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)