subsume
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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
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
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
The official French formula for annexing the Saar was to subsume it under "Alsace-Lorraine" meaning the Alsace-Lorraine of 1814-1815.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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
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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The fake world has subsumed the real world, eradicating it and leaving nothing in its place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Matsumoto emphasizes the institutional aspect of our times by showing how the identities of individuals have become subsumed by their jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, says they have been subsumed by the "existential threat" of the trade war with the US.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
America’s crisis and failure of imagination has been subsumed by a horrible reality — one that is not going away anytime soon.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 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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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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