subclass
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor further questioned during that oral argument what percentage of the population a subclass accounts for would make it meaningful.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Call you outcast, low down, you can’t make it, you’re nothing, you’re from nobody, subclass, underclass; when you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
The results, published in Cell Reports Medicine on Feb. 23, suggested that this "gene signature" could be used to identify a subclass of lung tumors that is more likely to be eradicated by immunotherapies.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024
Obviously, then, we will find ourselves not in a “typical” lifeless universe, but in a “special” member of the multiverse—one belonging to that subclass of universes that allow life to emerge and evolve.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2023
These structures belong partly to class III, villages on defensive sites, and partly to a subclass which pertained to a certain extent to all the others.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
