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subsume

[suhb-soom] / səbˈsum /
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The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 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

Later, LoD was to subsume the personnel of the hacker group "Tribunal of Knowledge."

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

But to say the administration can be defined as a lack of character—the term subsumes all those other judgments, and is much harder to question.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Didacticism often subsumes narrative, with popular titles including Hands Are Not for Hitting and Everyone Poops.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025

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

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

You remember the rhythms and twinkly synths more than the melodies, and Madonna allows her own voice to be subsumed in the music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The fake world has subsumed the real world, eradicating it and leaving nothing in its place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

For the remainder of the film, Brontë’s character Hindley Earnshaw is subsumed into Mr. Earnshaw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

They were deep in conversation and seemed familiar with one another, their words mostly subsumed by the music playing in the background.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

And as their A.I. gets better, it may well end up subsuming some of the products and features developers are building with the technology today.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 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


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