Thesaurus results for SUBSPECIALTY

subspecialty

noun

as in subfield

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Recent Examples of subspecialty Sharon also learned that the subspecialty of child abuse pediatrics itself has also been under increasing scrutiny. —

Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025 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 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 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 See All Example Sentences for subspecialty

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Noun

This relatively nascent subfield grew out of the need to make the general public more informed and aware of the import of scientific findings to their personal lives and to society at large.

— Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
In the summer of 2023, at the end of his third year of graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ilango was growing increasingly interested in an arcane subfield of complexity theory called proof complexity.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026