subsumption

Example Sentences

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There is more to the future of relativity, though, than its eventual subsumption into some still unforeseeable follow-up theory.

From Economist

His was first an attempt to ward off government incursion while this week’s laments point toward corporate subsumption.

From Forbes

There are many reasons to snipe at the Stones: the money grubbing, the subsumption of art beneath commerce, their willingness to live off past glories by recycling their greatest hits into package after package.

From The Guardian

A general scheme of principles of conduct is possible, but the subsumption of special cases under these must remain matter of tact.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus even the association of ideas is to be treated as a subsumption of the individual under the universal, which forms their connecting link.

From Project Gutenberg