subsumed; subsuming
: to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element
red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term "color"
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Examples of subsume in a Sentence
games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of “recreation”
Recent Examples on the Web
More often than not in the history of the entertainment business, successful independent companies have eventually been subsumed by the behemoths that dominated the industry.
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
At times, the taut drama on the court was subsumed by the spectacle off it.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
In the last year, all of the interest and concern about VR and its cousin, augmented reality, was subsumed by the fretful conversation about generative artificial intelligence, and for good reason.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
And a case could be made that Ohio subsumed many of the elements of the American polity: farmland and industrial cities, college towns and factory towns, sprawling suburbia and a swath of rural southeastern counties in many ways akin to neighboring West Virginia.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Critics of the agency had long argued that the work of the agency should be subsumed under the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a separate U.N. body that focuses on resettling refugees who cannot return home.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
By her early 20s, mathematics had subsumed everything else.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
The Omega Workshop didn’t identify individual textile or other designs by the artist’s name, preferring instead to subsume the work into the larger cultural ethos of the early modern era.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
At times, the taut drama on the court was subsumed by the spectacle off it.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
In the last year, all of the interest and concern about VR and its cousin, augmented reality, was subsumed by the fretful conversation about generative artificial intelligence, and for good reason.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
And a case could be made that Ohio subsumed many of the elements of the American polity: farmland and industrial cities, college towns and factory towns, sprawling suburbia and a swath of rural southeastern counties in many ways akin to neighboring West Virginia.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
Critics of the agency had long argued that the work of the agency should be subsumed under the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a separate U.N. body that focuses on resettling refugees who cannot return home.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
By her early 20s, mathematics had subsumed everything else.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
The Omega Workshop didn’t identify individual textile or other designs by the artist’s name, preferring instead to subsume the work into the larger cultural ethos of the early modern era.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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subsume
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sub·sume
səb-ˈsüm 
subsumed; subsuming
: to include or place within something larger or more general
red and green are subsumed under the term "color"
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