subsume

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

To sustain this unity, one must subsume one’s own needs for the greater good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

In the same way the actions of a self-conscious moral agent, such as man, depend upon and subsume the laws of animal life.

From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart

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

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

“Matrix,” meanwhile, subsumes us in a mythical world surrounded by real-life monsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

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

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

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

It’s rare to watch an actor contend with their decisions so forthrightly, to admit to and accept the fact that they’ve let themselves be subsumed by stardom.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2025

But animated by voice those words are subsumed into sounds.

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

Baker, Bridgers and Dacus take turns singing lead vocals and join in harmonies, savoring and then subsuming their differences.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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