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Recent Examples of subcomponent
The funding goes to 10 subcomponents in the agency, but the vast majority of it goes to just one: the Office of Federal Student Aid, which received $179.65 billion in FY 2024.
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Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Currently testing reactor subcomponents; successful prototype in 2015 could lead to commercial reactor in 2020.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
To reach the overall fitness standard, students must reach the fitness standard for all four subcomponents.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
Students taking the fitness assessment are evaluated across four subcomponents: upper body strength and endurance, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, aerobic endurance and flexibility.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
The Export-Import Bank of the United States was at the bottom of the small agencies category while the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with a score of 38.1 out 100, was at the bottom of the subcomponents list.
—Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 May 2024
There was, however, a year-over-year decrease in all of the subcomponents of job satisfaction compared for both men and women.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 6 May 2024
None of the nine subcomponents of Valley National Bank’s $28.2 billion commercial real estate portfolio account for more than 25% of it.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Currently testing reactor subcomponents; successful prototype in 2015 could lead to commercial reactor in 2020.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
To reach the overall fitness standard, students must reach the fitness standard for all four subcomponents.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
Students taking the fitness assessment are evaluated across four subcomponents: upper body strength and endurance, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, aerobic endurance and flexibility.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
The Export-Import Bank of the United States was at the bottom of the small agencies category while the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with a score of 38.1 out 100, was at the bottom of the subcomponents list.
—Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 May 2024
There was, however, a year-over-year decrease in all of the subcomponents of job satisfaction compared for both men and women.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 6 May 2024
None of the nine subcomponents of Valley National Bank’s $28.2 billion commercial real estate portfolio account for more than 25% of it.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcomponent
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Jefferson noted that while housing inflation has come down, other components, particularly goods prices, have recently edged up, and short-term inflation expectations are on the rise.—
Shannon Carroll,
Quartz,
14 May 2025
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Stack Unit Economics Today's robotics startups leverage off-the-shelf components, cloud computing and AI to bring solutions to market in months instead of years.—
Aditya Ranjan,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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For the fourth main section of practice, the Chargers also installed plays and schemes.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
10 May 2025
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Fans gushed over the sweet image and clip in the comment section of the Instagram post.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
10 May 2025
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These include a change to the portion of state Medicaid costs borne by the federal government, which is currently at 90% for states that elected to expand their eligible Medicaid population.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The biggest portion of those cuts would be a reduction in K-12 funding by more than $4.5 billion.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
8 May 2025
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The fact that the team had only participated in 12 races prior to 2010 highlights how, in this F1 era and within a relatively compressed segment of the world championship’s 75-year history, only Mercedes and Red Bull have attained true superteam status.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Sales nevertheless declined within the company's specialist watchmakers segment, which features brands Piaget and Roger Dubuis, led by weakness in the Asia-Pacific region.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
16 May 2025
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Economic uncertainty across global sectors, however, may be the black fly in the Sancerre.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Meanwhile, the potential price hikes from Walmart come as U.S. consumers contend with concerns over how Trump’s tariffs could hurt their wallets across multiple sectors—from groceries, to electronics, to automobiles.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
15 May 2025
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Microplastics are small plastic particles that come from broken down plastics, according to a study in the National Library of Medicine.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Hydrolyzed marine collagen undergoes a process called enzymatic hydrolysis that breaks it down into even smaller particles called collagen peptides.—
Veronica Cristino,
Vogue,
7 May 2025
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The other was almost entirely absent of decoration, but was found with fragments of fabric, which could have come from a material case or the clothes the deceased owner was wearing when buried.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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Psaki’s show will, at least, be one fragment among all the others, and perhaps a relatively noticeable one.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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Artificial intelligence was a major factor in the actors strike of 2023 and the burgeoning technology will remain a key element in next year’s negotiations.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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Morality is not a useful element in foreign policy decision making.—
Frank Lavin,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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“Subcomponent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcomponent. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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