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subset

[suhb-set] / ˈsʌbˌsɛt /
NOUN
set that is part of a larger set
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Yet these training attempts provide only a small subset of the data needed.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nine Invesco ETFs are listed that weight the S&P 500 differently or select subsets of the index.

From MarketWatch

It didn’t indicate any subsets of patients in which the drug worked.

From Barron's

More importantly, the S&P 500 has returned 278% over the past decade, beating the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, a subset of companies with many years of raising payments, by more than 100 points.

From Barron's

The significance of this discovery became clearer when a Japanese study on supercentenarians, meaning individuals who live well past 100, found that this same T helper cell subset was abundant in their immune systems.

From Science Daily