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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
But absent a theoretical reason to focus only on a subset of all-available data, such a focus will almost certainly be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 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
The number of funds raising capital has fallen, as fundraising becomes more concentrated among a small subset of large, established managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Unless you get the complete list of predictions or a randomly selected subset, the correct predictions mean nothing.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Economists also look at different subsets of the CPI for a more nuanced picture of inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
There are at least 14 known subsets, or “cliques,” with names such as Ballista Street, Blackwood Street, Northam Street and Dial Avenue, taken from areas where leaders live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
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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