subset
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"We want to have some subset of goods that we can trade with the Chinese on a more preferential basis," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
But for a certain subset, that is just the start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
A narrower 240 million subset of only U.S. citizens would bring the cost to $1.2 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The government, they wrote, “appears to be asking this Court to consider and approve a hypothetical delegation to Essayli of some subset of the U.S. Attorney powers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
He refers to that subset a second time, and so it’s time to switch back to the definite: Most of these herons.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
So far in 2026, a number of index funds that follow alternative strategies to track subsets of the S&P 500 or change the index’s weighting have performed quite well.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subsets of the human family, with great success and invariable opposition.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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