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Recent Examples of subfield
Students should begin by researching subfields that combine humanities with scientific disciplines, and find areas of overlap between their own various interests.
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Christopher Rim, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Some fields are worse than others: biology and medicine are closer to 3 percent, and some subfields, such as cancer, may be much larger, Day said.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
Some fields are worse than others: biology and medicine are closer to 3%, and some subfields, such as cancer, may be much larger, Day said.
—Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Humanoids Take The Spotlight In 2024, humanoids went from a subfield historically seen as a source of military contracts and marketing videos to a dominant area of focus.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Rim, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Some fields are worse than others: biology and medicine are closer to 3 percent, and some subfields, such as cancer, may be much larger, Day said.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
Some fields are worse than others: biology and medicine are closer to 3%, and some subfields, such as cancer, may be much larger, Day said.
—Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Humanoids Take The Spotlight In 2024, humanoids went from a subfield historically seen as a source of military contracts and marketing videos to a dominant area of focus.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
Noun
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Child abuse pediatrics is a relatively new subspecialty whose practitioners work closely with police officers and social workers to investigate potential cases of intentional harm.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
29 Dec. 2024
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Child-abuse pediatrics is a relatively new subspecialty whose practitioners work closely with police officers and social workers to investigate potential cases of intentional harm.—
Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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This identifies patterns in scope, team composition, timelines and customer feedback to reveal success or failure predictors.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Last year, for example, the mission team shifted the scope into one-gyro mode after yet another of the devices failed.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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First, why are speech and music so distinct in their amplitude over time?—
Andrew Chang,
Scientific American,
18 Sep. 2024
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Captured within a radar image are two pieces of information: amplitude and phase.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Such relentless rotations were a nightmare for Forest’s first-half 4-4-2 approach, unable to simultaneously cover the width of the full-backs and darting movements in midfield.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The mature width of a hydrangea can range from 2 to 6 feet.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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Your own career spans a wide breadth of American music.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize English, this dataset is malleable, with human translations for testing a wider breadth of languages and cultures.—
Reece Rogers,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, the family launched their reality TV show, Mathis Family Matters, which gave a glimpse into the family’s professions and relationships.—
Makena Gera,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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So this was not a day when Wilshere questioned the wisdom of the mad profession of football management?—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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The protests signal the extent of public alarm over some of Trump's executive actions and cuts to federal government.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Apr. 2025
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There, McVeigh was booked and saw on TV the extent of the devastation.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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