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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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Whether or not scholars have agreed with all the aspects of Shohat’s analysis, her call for Mizrahi studies certainly pointed toward that subfield’s subsequent expansion.—
Josh Lambert,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Sep. 2025
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The contention is that the definition of AGI should be fully standalone and not rely upon references to AI fields or subfields (which are subject to change, and otherwise seemingly unnecessary to strictly define AGI per se).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The quartet of projects represents a widening scope for the Taipei company, which has steadily built credentials through festival selections, streaming deals and local box office success since 2017.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
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So, military leaders had to expand the scope of potential recruits to reach out to groups previously excluded – namely, Black Americans, other people of color and women.—
Jeremiah Favara,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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And now, with the independence of the legal profession at risk, firms must advocate not just for their own clients, or for their short-term business survival, but for the profession itself.—
Fabio Bertoni,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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This, the medical profession maintains, is the stuff of fiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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What would the amplitude of those gravitational wave fluctuations be?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a person sleeps, this synchrony grows, producing brain waves that are lower in frequency and higher in amplitude.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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That gives the creative team ample freedom to flesh out their vision of Derry, all while paying tribute to the breadth of King's vast oeuvre, which, by virtue of the author's penchant for cross-pollination, lends itself to Easter eggs.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Mendes conceived four theatrical feature films to capture the breadth of the iconic rock band’s journey and legacy.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
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The set will be 18 cm in width, 62 cm in length, and 36 cm in height.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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Full-backs are encouraged to get up the pitch to support the attack and provide greater width, often creating a front five across the pitch as the No 10 drifts between the lines.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The extent of the unavoidable seemed to be in the eye of the beholder.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The extent of the President's potential influence with New Yorkers in Cuomo's uphill battle with Mamdani is questionable.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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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 7 Nov. 2025.
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