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subsumption

[suhb-suhmp-shuhn] / səbˈsʌmp ʃən /


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He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

I wonder if the isolation of these years, and the subsumption of our locked-down lives by digital screens, has just wiped out any last remaining commitment to art as something more than a communications medium.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

God has always been all over West’s music—the gospel-adjacent soul samples, the ever-present sense of glory and revelation—in a way that alternately suggests worship and subsumption.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019

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

From Economist ● Nov. 25, 2015

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various


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