subset

Example Sentences

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The additional traffic from Lantern or other tools becomes a subset of a much larger whole.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Our civic collapse is “a subset of a larger coming-of-age collapse. But our educational institutions are in freefall.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

But 12% took four or more hardship withdrawals, which pointed to a more chronic financial problem for that subset of workers.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

State officials used the system to search for information on a subset of about 6,000 voters they had reason to think might not be citizens, according to emails between federal and state officials.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

This kind of science has been termed “neuroeconomics,” a subset of which is known as “delay discounting.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel