subsume

Example Sentences

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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 novel echoes thinkers like Hannah Arendt in pointing out how true-believing functionaries, the butt of ridicule in “normal” times, can help subsume all reason and decency to usurp a compliant and too-comfortable ruling class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

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

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George