subsume
Example Sentences
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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.
But I felt that her story had been subsumed had been rubbed out, she'd been made invisible by the official version.
From Salon
“A gambling scandal … will subsume everything else good about the university.”
From Seattle Times
But the public memory of the attack was largely subsumed after 9/11.
From Seattle Times
If the collapse has not totally subsumed Brady, he hasn’t gotten out fully unscathed either.
From Los Angeles Times
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