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
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
Here, Freiman scratches at the difference between knowing and knowingness, and how our blind spots can subsume our personality.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
The form of Education reaches its limits with the idea of punishment, because this is the attempt to subsume the negative reality and to make it conformable to its positive idea.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
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