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Recent Examples of subfield
The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including several prominent titles in various agricultural subfields.
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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
Students should begin by researching subfields that combine humanities with scientific disciplines, and find areas of overlap between their own various interests.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes, 23 Jan. 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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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
Students should begin by researching subfields that combine humanities with scientific disciplines, and find areas of overlap between their own various interests.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes, 23 Jan. 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
Noun
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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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Yale’s lab has tracked these abductions for years now, and the group released its latest report on Tuesday, which shed more light on the scope and scale of Russia’s indoctrination efforts.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The standard deduction significantly reduced the scope of the SALT deduction, shifting its benefits toward higher-income taxpayers.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The amplituhedron is an incredibly powerful calculational tool, enabling those who work with them to compute — by hand, mind you — scattering amplitudes for problems that could not have been feasibly calculated even by a computer beforehand.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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The copious observations and reflections that the speaker relates expand the movie—a mere seventy-one minutes long—into a work of novelistic amplitude.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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The expansion and contraction of credit directly controls the width of the triangle.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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There has been an absence of pace and width.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even though this ruling is a positive, incremental step forward in a case very few expected the DOJ to win in the first place, these measures will hardly address the full breadth of the harms to competition and consumers Google's monopolization causes.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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After enduring a stifling sea of sameness in the basic design of the iPhone since the iPhone X, Apple’s new line of iPhone 17s finally brings a very diverse and distinctive breadth of offerings to people looking for an iPhone.—
Bob O’Donnell,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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All of these have long been part of her life due to her profession, which dates back to her graduating from the Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1983 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater and her turns acting on soap operas like The Edge of Night and As the World Turns through the 1980s.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Love Aaron Lineweaver, who’s one of my dear friends in this profession and in life.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Sep. 2025
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There’s no single statistic that captures the extent of the change in complexity, but there are a few that paint a compelling picture.—
Bruce Kelley,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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So the extent to which his death and its aftermath have played out on those forums shouldn’t come as a surprise.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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