subsume
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.
It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.
From Barron's
A woman in her position could very easily allow herself to be subsumed by the mechanism that protects celebrity.
From Salon
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