subsume
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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
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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
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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
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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