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So while mFlusiva has the FDA’s blessing, Kennedy’s handpicked panel could still recommend that only a subset of Americans—say, people with compromised immune systems—get it.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Our results represent a subset of the economic value that our software has created for our customers,” Karp wrote in his shareholder letter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Given a stated subset of Ms. Kanakia’s intended audience—people who, like her wife, are distrustful of Great Books altogether—the benignness of her take may well be warranted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Critics of the proposed California law note that 3-D printed guns represent a small subset of ghost guns recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Perhaps I am a subset of robot, but I have not encountered enough robots to know for sure.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Bhasin says certain at-risk subsets of the population should be screened, such as people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, men who have been treated with chemotherapy, or have chronic liver disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He recognizes that terms like cure and functional cure could be applied in a carefully defined way in certain subsets of patients and be beneficial, but he’s just not ready to declare victory.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
There are a few more hoops to jump through when using NordVPN because they have subsets of servers dedicated to P2P and obfuscation.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
For investors who prefer index funds, an analysis in November of nine approaches taken by Invesco to tracking subsets of the S&P 500 showed that the momentum approach had worked best over multiple periods.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
Even though every cell contains the same set of genes—an identical genome—the selective activation or repression of particular subsets of genes allows an individual cell to respond to its environments.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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