subset
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One subset of magnet schools requires a selective admissions process, and these are at the center of the current dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
When scientists examined brain tissue collected after death from a subset of participants, they discovered a striking pattern.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Last week, Greer had promised there would be “a small subset of goods that we can just keep aside from any trade disputes.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
"We want to have some subset of goods that we can trade with the Chinese on a more preferential basis," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 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
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Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Bhasin says certain at-risk subsets of the population should be screened, such as people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, men who have been treated with chemotherapy, or have chronic liver disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He recognizes that terms like cure and functional cure could be applied in a carefully defined way in certain subsets of patients and be beneficial, but he’s just not ready to declare victory.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
There are a few more hoops to jump through when using NordVPN because they have subsets of servers dedicated to P2P and obfuscation.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
We decided to focus on two subsets of kids to help the Court grant relief if it wasn't ready to ban all life sentences without parole for juveniles.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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