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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

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

Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.

From New York Times

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

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

From Economist