subsume
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The novel echoes thinkers like Hannah Arendt in pointing out how true-believing functionaries, the butt of ridicule in “normal” times, can help subsume all reason and decency to usurp a compliant and too-comfortable ruling class.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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
Then subsume they, but such was Argiles compliance; ergo, for treasonable compliance he could not be put to death because not guilty of it.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
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