subsumption

Example Sentences

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He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

God has always been all over West’s music—the gospel-adjacent soul samples, the ever-present sense of glory and revelation—in a way that alternately suggests worship and subsumption.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

There is more to the future of relativity, though, than its eventual subsumption into some still unforeseeable follow-up theory.

From Economist • Nov. 25, 2015

This well expresses the distinction between the merely physical and the hyperphysical natures of man, and the subsumption of the former into the latter which dominates it.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George