How to Use subsidiary in a Sentence

subsidiary

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Instead, the baby would likely get one of the subsidiary titles that the Queen gave Harry on the day of his wedding.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Nor are the numbers for the subsidiary characters compelling.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And there are subsidiary questions that run down from there: Which sensors create the best data?
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Hu finds the subsidiary motif that throws the meaning of what came before into question.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • If these issues were found in only one part of DHS and its subsidiary agencies, there might be an option for reform.
    — Matt Ford, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The other members could either stay in the ie, marry into a new one (daughters), or start subsidiary branches (sons).
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • All other human passions are subsidiary to lust for money and contempt for those no longer in a position to dole it out.
    — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 29 Jan. 2020
  • And since the film aims to bring the trilogy to a close, rest assured that there are so many cameo appearances from past and subsidiary characters that the shoot must have felt like a high school reunion.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Subsidiary tunes seldom heard, and not meant to be heard prominently, were everywhere.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
  • God only knows how many lives have been saved, and subsidiary crimes avoided, because of these dedicated men and women.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Although creditors in the U.S. may get wiped out in bankruptcy, losses are contained at the subsidiary level.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The ballet abounds in plot twists, subsidiary characters and corps ensembles woven (or jimmied) into the story.
    — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • As of press time, Bethesda.net includes a broad range of games developed by Bethesda and its subsidiary studios, along with some (but not all) of those companies' back-catalog titles.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The old place eventually assumed subsidiary medical roles until it was razed in 1972.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity.com, 9 June 2017
  • Several of the new ones flesh out subsidiary characters, including Hans, the foreign prince who romances Anna, and Kristoff, the backcountry lunk who helps her on her journey.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The placing of principal and subsidiary cords could show family or tribal relationships.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The regulation is a piece of subsidiary legislation, subject to negative vetting.
    — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The Treasury has targeted at least 21 individuals, five crime syndicates and two subsidiary gangs associated with the Yakuza.
    — Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Earlier this month, Singapore Airlines and subsidiary SilkAir announced a temporary reduction in flight services across their global network, owing to weak demand as a result of the outbreak.
    — Bloomberg.com, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Subsidiary protection allows Suleiman a one-year residence permit, instead of the three years for refugees, and imposes more stringent qualifications for obtaining a long-term license to stay in Germany.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 26 July 2017
  • She’s surrounded by four other actors who, in addition to each playing one major role all on their own, also switch all the subsidiary characters among themselves — often by donning a pair of glasses or ostentatiously opening a fan.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • In her new role as president of promotion, Ganis will continue to oversee all promotion activities pertaining to Atlantic and its subsidiary labels, as well as serving on the company's leadership team.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2019
  • In his role at HSC, Jakubowski is responsible for all government relations and public/community development at the hospital, its foundation and all subsidiary programs.
    — Courant Community, 17 July 2017
  • The life sciences subsidiary provides supply chain, compliance, finance and technology support to biopharma and medical device companies.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Instead, the baby would likely get one of the subsidiary titles that the Queen gave Harry on the day of his wedding.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Nor are the numbers for the subsidiary characters compelling.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And there are subsidiary questions that run down from there: Which sensors create the best data?
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Hu finds the subsidiary motif that throws the meaning of what came before into question.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • If these issues were found in only one part of DHS and its subsidiary agencies, there might be an option for reform.
    — Matt Ford, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The other members could either stay in the ie, marry into a new one (daughters), or start subsidiary branches (sons).
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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subsidiary

2 of 2 noun
  • One of its subsidiaries owns at least 11 coal power plants and has stakes in 13 others, the committee wrote.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • The Swiss bank will come away with a nice windfall from the deal, but its newer subsidiary Credit Suisse sure won’t.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Christofle and its subsidiaries have used a variety of hallmarks, from a rooster to a cat’s head, since the Parisian firm was founded in 1830.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Sandbox, which first launched in 2012, is a subsidiary of Animoca Brands.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • The company sold the data through its subsidiary Jumpshot, the FTC said in an order announcing the fine.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The company also has two subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Dungeons & Dragons is published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The artist was shortly thereafter contacted by Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Its subsidiary YouTube was the slowest of the major platforms to take action against extremist content.
    — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Hood had worked for a subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but rather than being found guilty of bribery, Hood was the one who notified authorities about the bribes.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But that plan now looks to be in peril, after police detained its chairman as well as staff at a financing subsidiary.
    — Laura He, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The news of the higher prices comes on the heels of an announcement earlier this week that Dollar Tree plans to close nearly 1,000 stores of its subsidiary Family Dollar stores.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Soon after, a man wrote an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, the maker of Tylenol, demanding $1 million to stop the killings.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • The new due diligence requirements apply not only to the direct actions of the company, but also to their subsidiaries and supply chain.
    — Jon McGowan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • With the sale, Blue Apron was recapitalized as a Wonder subsidiary, making the warning irrelevant, the spokesman said.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The two companies were previously added to the entity list in the past, but this order would mean all of their subsidiaries would be included in order to avoid legal loopholes.
    — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This firm, which is a subsidiary of Roscosmos, is responsible for launch pads and ground support equipment for the Russian space corporation.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For most of the past decade, Seacat worked at the Amazon subsidiary as a technical customer support associate, helping with cloud computing.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • For all intents and purposes, the plastics industry is a subsidiary of the fossil-fuel industry.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Cambridge Properties Holding’s debt load includes two external bank loans held by subsidiaries, both of which are floating-rate and mature next year.
    — Libby Cherry, Fortune Europe, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The shares of a subsidiary of property giant China Evergrande Group resumed trading on Thursday after a long break.
    — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The consulting firm and the construction company are subsidiaries of Sinomach, a machinery giant ranked in the Fortune Global 500.
    — Claire Fu, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In 2011, the FDA cited a Philips subsidiary for failing to turn over complaints about faulty imaging scanners, including at least two that reported the machines had caught fire, government records show.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • That study — the only one the agency cited in its response to ProPublica — was funded by a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, which at the time was the primary seller of chlorpyrifos.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 6 July 2023
  • The firm also has an international subsidiary in Bermuda that filed for bankruptcy there.
    — Andrea Salcedo, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • PodcastOne, a former subsidiary of LiveOne, has since spun out into a separate public company and went live on the Nasdaq last week.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Across town, Doubleday began a spending spree in the late sixties to keep up, launching a broadcast subsidiary and acquiring a number of radio and TV stations throughout the country.
    — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Almarai's holdings in the Southwest are just one example of the farmland the company and its subsidiaries operate outside Saudi Arabia.
    — CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For each incremental dollar Meta and its subsidiaries chased, the end-user experience was given over to ads ever so slightly.
    — Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Public companies or their subsidiaries are not eligible for the Fintech 50.
    — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

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