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Recent Examples of subspecialty
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.
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Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Additionally, the company offers other pediatric subspecialty services supporting hospitals.
—Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The split would foster subspecialty development, research, and innovation in these historically underexplored areas while giving young doctors the opportunity to specialize in one or the other.
—Dr. Elizabeth Poynor, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
So, hepatology is a subspecialty under gastroenterology.5 Gastroenterology vs Hepatology
Specialist appointments can be hard to find.
—Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
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Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Additionally, the company offers other pediatric subspecialty services supporting hospitals.
—Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The split would foster subspecialty development, research, and innovation in these historically underexplored areas while giving young doctors the opportunity to specialize in one or the other.
—Dr. Elizabeth Poynor, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
So, hepatology is a subspecialty under gastroenterology.5 Gastroenterology vs Hepatology
Specialist appointments can be hard to find.
—Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subspecialty
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Then as now, the experts of a subfield by and large failed to predict the most seismic political event in a generation.—
Jason Blakely,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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But Anfinsen’s theory launched an entire subfield of computational biology with the goal of using complex mathematics, instead of empirical experiments, to model proteins.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Nov. 2025
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Top Republicans who attended the classified briefing rallied to the president’s defense while Democrats questioned the scope of the operation and pushed to halt further military action.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
6 Jan. 2026
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Homegrown Indian brands, such as Bombay Perfumery and Forest Essentials, are in the scopes of beauty experts.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Tobolowsky came late to sculpture, at least as a profession.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Rather than focusing only on events designed for networking, broaden your list to include open houses, community forums, conferences, and any other meeting where people from your field (or from a variety of professions) might be gathered.—
Amy Lindgren,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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Instead of standard binary coding information utilizing electronic circuits using signals of ones and zeros, the researchers use the amplitude and phase of light waves to store, process, and communicate data.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Dec. 2025
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For adults, chiropractors generally use HVLA (high velocity, low amplitude) thrusting adjustments—quick manipulations of the neck or back that sometimes produce cracking or popping sounds.—
Jillian Pretzel,
Parents,
29 Nov. 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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These frequencies, Weber argued, had to be large, as gravitational waves passing through them would only induce a size change of a fraction-of-a-proton’s width.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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Pruning Pruning will help restrict the height or width of the tree if desired and is sometimes needed to remove damage from winter dieback after extremely cold temperatures.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Nov. 2025
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The extent of the injuries has not been released.—
Chelsea Jones,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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This is to some extent a consequence of how quickly the government had to act in the face of that emergency, a catch-22 between ensuring that the money would be going to actually help people who needed it and having to get billions out the door at lightning-speed.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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To that point, Bataillon reasoned that an eligibility rule doesn’t fall within the ambit of Alston since the rule is not about compensation, let alone the type of compensation at issue in Alston.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
27 July 2025
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Those who would argue that this abuse of power constitutes a crime should remember that Trump and his team have avidly proclaimed that presidents must have immunity from criminal prosecution for acts within the broad ambit of executive power.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 July 2025
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“Subspecialty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subspecialty. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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