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Recent Examples of subfield
Today the utility of this mathematical subfield is undisputed.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2025
Researchers in the burgeoning subfield of mechanistic interpretability, inspired by neuroscience, instead try to understand models by opening them up and poking around inside.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Varma is an associate professor of the psychological/medial anthropology subfield and the vice chair of undergraduate studies.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including several prominent titles in various agricultural subfields.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2025
Researchers in the burgeoning subfield of mechanistic interpretability, inspired by neuroscience, instead try to understand models by opening them up and poking around inside.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Varma is an associate professor of the psychological/medial anthropology subfield and the vice chair of undergraduate studies.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including several prominent titles in various agricultural subfields.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
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This subspecialty—which for years compelled surgeons to seek training abroad—can now be pursued in Colombia under international standards.—
Dr. Victor Raúl Castillo Mantilla,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sharon also learned that the subspecialty of child abuse pediatrics itself has also been under increasing scrutiny.—
Jessica Lussenhop,
ProPublica,
30 June 2025
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The quartet of projects represents a widening scope for the Taipei company, which has steadily built credentials through festival selections, streaming deals and local box office success since 2017.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
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So, military leaders had to expand the scope of potential recruits to reach out to groups previously excluded – namely, Black Americans, other people of color and women.—
Jeremiah Favara,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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What would the amplitude of those gravitational wave fluctuations be?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a person sleeps, this synchrony grows, producing brain waves that are lower in frequency and higher in amplitude.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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The set will be 18 cm in width, 62 cm in length, and 36 cm in height.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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Full-backs are encouraged to get up the pitch to support the attack and provide greater width, often creating a front five across the pitch as the No 10 drifts between the lines.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Mulzet also reflects on the timeliness of his writing and the breadth of his influences, including Europe and Asia more broadly.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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That breadth of audience from these types of shows is important to us and to our business model.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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And now, with the independence of the legal profession at risk, firms must advocate not just for their own clients, or for their short-term business survival, but for the profession itself.—
Fabio Bertoni,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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This, the medical profession maintains, is the stuff of fiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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The extent of the unavoidable seemed to be in the eye of the beholder.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The extent of the President's potential influence with New Yorkers in Cuomo's uphill battle with Mamdani is questionable.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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