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Example Sentences

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The LA28 executive committee of the board — a small subset of its broader 35-member board — said it took “allegations of misconduct seriously.”

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier models were typically trained on carefully selected subsets of MRI data and designed to perform narrow tasks, such as identifying lesions or estimating dementia risk.

From Science Daily

Hip hop initially reached mass audiences through a subset of black radio stations, often those formatted as “urban contemporary.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The selloff has also crushed Wall Street’s price-to-earnings forecasts, with software names suffering the biggest contraction in PE multiples of any subset in the technology sector, according to Trivariate Research analysts.

From Barron's

For investors who prefer index funds, an analysis in November of nine approaches taken by Invesco to tracking subsets of the S&P 500 showed that the momentum approach had worked best over multiple periods.

From MarketWatch