subsume
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It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
As directed by Mr. Villazón, the chorus, which plays a major role in the opera, is not benign: Its goal is to subsume Amina and suppress rebellion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 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
But we draw attention only to that one of these latter concepts, under which we wish to subsume the first, and let the others remain unobserved, or keep them concealed.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Didacticism often subsumes narrative, with popular titles including Hands Are Not for Hitting and Everyone Poops.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025
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
Erpenbeck writes “Kairos” in a skillfully volleying point of view that subsumes the perspectives of both its leads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
His résumé reveals a long career as an ensemble player, a sidekick, lately a dad, nearly always an actor who subsumes himself to the character.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
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
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In a time when teen life is subsumed by alienating digital technology and an understandable risk-aversion, “Nimrods” takes the yearnings of its young punks seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
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
They were deep in conversation and seemed familiar with one another, their words mostly subsumed by the music playing in the background.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
And as their A.I. gets better, it may well end up subsuming some of the products and features developers are building with the technology today.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2023
As she spent time subsuming herself in the writing of others, she began to think more about her own creative ambitions.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 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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