subsume
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The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2025
Eventually, this observation takes on remarkable proportions as their lives subsume his own after he begins handling their public relations concerns.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024
Later, LoD was to subsume the personnel of the hacker group "Tribunal of Knowledge."
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
But to say the administration can be defined as a lack of character—the term subsumes all those other judgments, and is much harder to question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
But we won’t have to wait for that dark moment when it subsumes our reality; we’re already all too willing to alter reality in our own minds.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2026
Says Dr. Wong: "In this new paper, we consider evolution in the broadest sense -- change over time -- which subsumes Darwinian evolution based upon the particulars of 'descent with modification.'"
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023
His résumé reveals a long career as an ensemble player, a sidekick, lately a dad, nearly always an actor who subsumes himself to the character.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Washington’s intention to wage a humane and gentlemanly war for American independence was subsumed by proliferating mayhem, especially on the remote frontiers, where practices such as scalping were well established.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It’s rare to watch an actor contend with their decisions so forthrightly, to admit to and accept the fact that they’ve let themselves be subsumed by stardom.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2025
It was abolished in 2012 and subsumed into NHS England.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
Of course, we consume these things differently since streaming took over the world, and arguably since man first learned to program a VCR, with network shows subsumed into the ocean of time-shifted picking and choosing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2025
Fuerte for that reason was a characteristic subsumed by the last of the three qualities, and the one I most often considered—formal.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The tiny microphone has taken over city streets and college towns, while subsuming video-based social media entirely.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
His death allowed Franco to eliminate a rival and take control of the Falangists, subsuming them to a broader far-right movement that supported his dictatorship.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
And as their A.I. gets better, it may well end up subsuming some of the products and features developers are building with the technology today.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2023
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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