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subsume

[suhb-soom] / səbˈsum /
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And Tucker Carlson’s sobriety story, where even in a moment of honest vulnerability, one can feel the fictional character he plays on television ready to subsume the man at any moment.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026

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

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

We are invited to subsume questions of law and of the application of law under the social ideal of the time and place.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound

But we won’t have to wait for that dark moment when it subsumes our reality; we’re already all too willing to alter reality in our own minds.

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2026

Says Dr. Wong: "In this new paper, we consider evolution in the broadest sense -- change over time -- which subsumes Darwinian evolution based upon the particulars of 'descent with modification.'"

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

As a filmmaker, White subsumes his own point of view, and the film never takes any critical or contrary stance toward its subject matter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Indeed, Drake’s work subsumes what would be a traditional approach based on the “male gaze” — reclaiming the ability for women to tell their own story on their own terms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021

Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

You remember the rhythms and twinkly synths more than the melodies, and Madonna allows her own voice to be subsumed in the music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The fake world has subsumed the real world, eradicating it and leaving nothing in its place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

A woman in her position could very easily allow herself to be subsumed by the mechanism that protects celebrity.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025

It was abolished in 2012 and subsumed into NHS England.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

Instead, as Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project has noted, “all of these phenomenon were subsumed under the heading of ‘crime in the streets.’”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The tiny microphone has taken over city streets and college towns, while subsuming video-based social media entirely.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

His death allowed Franco to eliminate a rival and take control of the Falangists, subsuming them to a broader far-right movement that supported his dictatorship.

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023

Shawky, who would return to bustling, modernized Alexandria on holidays, was struck by the contrast between his birthplace and Saudi Arabia, which was transforming into a capitalist society and subsuming its tribal cultures.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling


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