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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games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of “recreation”
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Shoegaze is, after all, a term for subsuming individual personalities into pure sound.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
Across the ever shifting sphere: the effects of fog slowly subsuming a hillside, the sun stirring between the sea and sky, and ribbons of light refracting through shallow pools at low tide.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
This, in turn, might lead Beijing to conclude that its only choice is to exploit its military strength to override the United States’ opposition and forcibly subsume the island, even at significant economic and political cost.
—Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
There’s also a drifting effort to investigate the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility of Black women, especially early in the film when Frida is at work, but that is disappointingly subsumed by later action.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
Across the ever shifting sphere: the effects of fog slowly subsuming a hillside, the sun stirring between the sea and sky, and ribbons of light refracting through shallow pools at low tide.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
This, in turn, might lead Beijing to conclude that its only choice is to exploit its military strength to override the United States’ opposition and forcibly subsume the island, even at significant economic and political cost.
—Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
There’s also a drifting effort to investigate the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility of Black women, especially early in the film when Frida is at work, but that is disappointingly subsumed by later action.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
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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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