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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 subcommittees
Today, Merkley serves on key Senate committees and chairs subcommittees on environmental justice and chemical safety.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Government shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon The appropriations process is notoriously complicated, with each of 12 House and Senate subcommittees required to produce a bill to fund particular areas of the government.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Historically, most of ACIP’s work assessing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been done in 11 subcommittees, or work groups.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Complicating the service’s budget and authorization is that Coast Guard jurisdiction falls to multiple congressional committees and subcommittees.
—Gidget Fuentes, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Advertisement The subpoenas come nearly two weeks after one of the panel’s subcommittees voted to compel the Justice Department to release the files, just before the House left for its summer recess.
—Nik Popli, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Government shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon The appropriations process is notoriously complicated, with each of 12 House and Senate subcommittees required to produce a bill to fund particular areas of the government.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Historically, most of ACIP’s work assessing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been done in 11 subcommittees, or work groups.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Complicating the service’s budget and authorization is that Coast Guard jurisdiction falls to multiple congressional committees and subcommittees.
—Gidget Fuentes, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Advertisement The subpoenas come nearly two weeks after one of the panel’s subcommittees voted to compel the Justice Department to release the files, just before the House left for its summer recess.
—Nik Popli, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcommittees
Noun
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It’s designed with side-smoothing panels, separated cups, and wide, adjustable straps.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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According to researchers, these losses vary widely due to differences in climate and system design, including module tilt angle, height, and layout, which determine how effectively snow sheds from panels.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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While many states have sought to attract data centers as an economic boon, legislatures and utility commissions were also flooded with proposals to try to protect regular ratepayers from paying to connect data centers to the grid.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Today, that can mean a stair railing sculpted from cast bronze or a chandelier made of 450 shards of selenite (both, by the way, are Henault commissions).—
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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This year, large delegations came from France and Korea, mostly via pavilions hosted by French institutions and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), in addition to a growing number of participants from Southeast Asia and Japan.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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But, in recent years, several of the conservative Justices, in dissents, have seemed ready to start striking down some delegations as being too unspecific to be consistent with the separation of powers.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Subcommittees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcommittees. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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