The set {1,2,3} is a subset of the set {1,2,3,4,5}.
Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
Recent Examples on the WebThe report examined a subset of jail inmates in conservatorships — those whose care is overseen by the L.A. County Office of the Public Guardian because no friends or family can take on the task.—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Biden has not advocated for direct payments of that amount or frequency to any subset of Americans.—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024 Coming soon Those of you shopping in the mid-range subset, hold tight.—Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024 Argentina’s foreign exchange reserves hovered around $50 billion dollars, while all the plaintiffs were collectively owed over $10 billion dollars and the injunction request was being made with respect to a subset of cases on which only a few billion dollars were owed.—Gregory Makoff, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024 Although some people may think AI is a new technology, the rudimentary concepts of AI and its subsets date back more than 50 years.—Atal Bansal, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Then there’s a subset of cases in which a business, or a single investor, can bring a claim against a sovereign state — many of these manage to be equally unremarkable.—Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024 The study also included brain scans of a subset of the participants.—Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024 Public attitudes toward the COVID-19 have shifted drastically since 2020 as vaccines have become available and deaths decreased, leaving a small subset of people who regularly wear masks, test for the illness and isolate when experiencing symptoms.—Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
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