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subcommittee

noun

Definition of subcommittee

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 The plan passed a subcommittee vote in May with no dissenters. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026 The House panel has been investigating Mills since August 2024, and established an investigative subcommittee to further investigate Mills in November 2025. — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 21 July 2026 In a subcommittee hearing Tuesday, House Republicans sharply questioned the director of the National Museum of American History, Anthea Hartig. — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 21 July 2026 Nine new emojis will be released by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit responsible for approving new emojis, in spring 2027, Jennifer Daniel, chair of Unicode's emoji subcommittee, told USA TODAY. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for subcommittee

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The proceedings will then go forward in a trial format, with an opportunity to appeal if the commission rules against him.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026
The commission alleges Cloth and his company raised more than $500 million from investors for various film and television projects, and then diverted $70 million of the funds to other uses, like repaying earlier investors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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Those figures conform to those generated this year by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an advisory panel for Congress, which found that the subsidies reduced average Part D premiums by $26 a month last year and $16 this year.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The panel encouraged the roughly 100 attendees at Farish Street Baptist Church in Jackson to make sure they’re registered to vote, help register other people to vote and turn out to vote in record numbers.

— TAYLOR VANCE, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

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