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subsume

[suhb-soom] / səbˈsum /
VERB
include
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STRONG


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Pro-skills policies here would need to expand worker capabilities for talents AI cannot subsume.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

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

Here, Freiman scratches at the difference between knowing and knowingness, and how our blind spots can subsume our personality.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

Similarly the actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter.

From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart

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

All the awkwardness they’ve never had finally subsumes them.

From Slate Apr. 24, 2020

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

For the remainder of the film, Brontë’s character Hindley Earnshaw is subsumed into Mr. Earnshaw.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2026

Washington’s intention to wage a humane and gentlemanly war for American independence was subsumed by proliferating mayhem, especially on the remote frontiers, where practices such as scalping were well established.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Eventually she is subsumed into this alien universe, a creature of nature who allows birds to roost on her chromium shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

Government sources deny that NHS England is being subsumed into the health department but say it will have a "leaner" role, cutting out duplication.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2025

Fuerte for that reason was a characteristic subsumed by the last of the three qualities, and the one I most often considered—formal.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

As part of his vision of France as an independent global power, he began working to create a postcolonial sphere of influence by subsuming the new nations into an exclusive French zone called Françafrique.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2023

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

In subsuming his father’s voice, Louis eliminates him.

From New York Times May 23, 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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