subordinate

A good education requires the student to subordinate himself to something beyond his own preferences so that he may receive the wisdom of another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Curaleaf’s offer of $4 a share is made up of 0.3463 of a Curaleaf subordinate voting share and 75 cents in cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Nevertheless, keeping a creditworthy borrower in a home through a sustainable modification and resolving the arrearage through a subordinate lien can be dramatically less costly than allowing the loan to fail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"Nor can the interests of national associations, leagues, clubs, players and supporters become subordinate to investor returns. Football cannot mortgage its future for financial gain," Ceferin said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Suitcase had no reply, and the lieutenant did something I have rarely seen a superior officer do: he chastised his subordinate in the presence of prisoners.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But she admits she didn’t always adhere to the unwritten rules of weekend communication with subordinates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The plaintiff sued for money and settled for an apology plus something his complaint never requested and no court could have awarded: immunity, granted by his own subordinates.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Wasn’t it true, a juror asked, that he had taken to delegating tasks to subordinates in recent years?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Mr. Thune’s approach seems to be working, in that it’s speeding through batches of noncontroversial agency subordinates, while preserving the Senate’s right to confirm, or not, the next intended Attorney General.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Over brandy, Major Arthur Maxwell of His Majesty’s Marines and his subordinates passed around binoculars to observe the situation ashore.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

A press release from EFG refers to "approximately 232.6 million euros of subordinated debt".

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

“The subordinated side of the bank bond spectrum remains most vulnerable to further adjustment, in our view.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

In his post on X, he said that "the fight against drugs must be subordinated to the human rights of the Caribbean people".

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

That climate of deference fostered a culture of complicity, where questions of social responsibility were subordinated to uncritical faith in authority.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025

Awed by its magnificence, fearful of the supernatural powers controlled by its priesthood, local rulers subordinated themselves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Determined not to quarantine either story, she prefers what she calls the egalitarian “jump cut,” to the subordinating “meanwhile.”

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

“We are going to collaborate .. but without subordinating ourselves,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

He prioritized camaraderie with league officials to burnish his résumé, subordinating WSU’s interests.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

Foti did not respond when asked about Gosar's pattern of subordinating congressional rules to his religion.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023

For that matter, many of the words that were traditionally called subordinating conjunctions, like before and after, are actually prepositions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker