subcommittee

noun

Definition of subcommitteenext
as in commission
a part of a committee that is organized for a certain purpose The Senate has formed a subcommittee to set up an investigation.

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Recent Examples of subcommittee Today, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health will hold a hearing on 17 health care bills, including proposals to increase Medicare payment to doctors. — John Wilkerson, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026 Some selectors excluded from the 25-person selection committee could still serve on subcommittees for coach and contributor candidates. — Mike Sando, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Before that, Telle served on the Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee responsible for overseeing the Department of Homeland Security's budget. — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Kobach, a Republican who forged his political identity as an anti-immigration hardliner, was called to testify on birthright citizenship before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for subcommittee
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  1. commission
  2. panel
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  • The elements of the Pulitzer commission (three steel elevation markers sunk into the ground, their top edges, like those of Shift, parallel to the horizon) cannot be seen together from a single vantage.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Without knowing the outcome or City’s possible punishment – which the league has said will come at a later date by the independent commission – the pure essence of the Premier League is lost.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of commission
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  • Recently several of my fellow judges on a literary panel declined to read submissions that were more than two hundred pages long.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The group of senators — which includes all Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Africa panel — criticized both sides of the conflict.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of panel

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“Subcommittee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcommittee. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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