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Recent Examples of subfield
Varma is an associate professor of the psychological/medial anthropology subfield and the vice chair of undergraduate studies.
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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
The researchers who invoke oracles work in a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In a paper describing her team’s analysis of 511 other papers, Ghassemi’s team reported that machine learning papers in healthcare were reproducible far less often than in other machine learning subfields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
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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
The researchers who invoke oracles work in a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In a paper describing her team’s analysis of 511 other papers, Ghassemi’s team reported that machine learning papers in healthcare were reproducible far less often than in other machine learning subfields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
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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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Low-income individuals that received regular monthly cash stipends visited the emergency department less, had fewer hospital admissions and participated in more outpatient subspecialty care according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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For example, political shifts and so on are coming, so the book ends up having a larger scope.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Federal courts of appeals have divided over the question of scope of applicability.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
6 Oct. 2025
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The team first runs dynamic laboratory tests on generic soil samples to build reliable models, applying waves at different strain rates and amplitudes and comparing experimental results with simulations.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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By the time the ripples from GW150914 arrived at Earth, the size of those ripples, which translates into a quantity known as the strain amplitude for a gravitational wave detector, was down to 10-21, or one part in one sextillion.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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That precision is like measuring the distance between the North and South poles to better than the width of a single hair.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Added to which, wing-backs Alejandro Grimaldo and Frimpong, the latter now with Wirtz at Anfield, were an incredibly dynamic threat, stretching opponents across the full width of the pitch but playing with enough individual variety to pose a range of different questions.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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CarShield has received positive comments for its breadth of coverage and quick response times, although some policyholders have complained about claim denials, fine-print surprises and confusing sales practices.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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The breadth of work included construction of a new, 145,946-square-foot main building, demolition of the old school building and the construction of a 5,084-square-foot fieldhouse, according to a district news release.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
3 Oct. 2025
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Lejano said hospitals in his area are expanding capacity while some veteran nurses are leaving the profession due to burnout from the covid pandemic, creating openings.—
Phillip Reese,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Broader trends suggest an uneven labor market, with professions like health care continuing to thrive while other fields lag, Stahle said.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Additionally, only acts reported through police reports are counted in data collection examining discrimination against Jews, meaning the methodology may underestimate the true extent of antisemitism, according to the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Oct. 2025
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Levels like the oil rig Blackheart are just a circle, but one route around must be jumped across like a trampoline park — that’s the extent of creativity for many.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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