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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subspecialty
Noun
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In my subfield of ecology and evolutionary biology, an average dissertation could yield three to six papers, sometimes more.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
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Leonardo da Vinci is usually credited with conducting the first systematic study of friction in the late 15th century, a subfield now known as tribology that deals with the dynamics of interacting surfaces in relative motion.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Smart compares its scope to WannaCry, the high-profile global ransomware attack that affected more than 200,000 computers in 2017.—
Jessica Klein,
PC Magazine,
11 Apr. 2026
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The turnout reflected the scope of the loss.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Virtually every knowledge profession is vulnerable to this dynamic as companies change how work gets done and, more importantly, where cognition lives.—
Jeff Raikes,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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For Ethan Hawke, being an artist is a vocation first and a profession second.—
Laura Linney,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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The 10-country delegation represents a powerful and growing network of professional women leading the African film and entertainment industries and a direct expression of the belief that geographic breadth translates into industry power.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2026
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Hall envisions something far larger — a traveling or permanent installation that fully captures the breadth of Biz’s archive.—
Preezy Brown,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2026
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The challenge is making improvements within the street's limited width.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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To perform a lunge safely, start in a stable, hip-width split stance, Hribick advised.—
Julia Ries Wexler,
Health,
15 Apr. 2026
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Both the nature of enforcement and the extent to which ships will comply remained unclear during its first full day in effect on Tuesday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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After Judith’s husband Kobi found that issue of Life magazine in 1981, she and her brother were stunned to learn the extent of their father’s heroism.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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Yet the kind of misrepresentations experienced by Tkachuk and Harris aren’t within the ambit of intimate imagery laws.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Subspecialty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subspecialty. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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