as in to include
to have as part of a whole
games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of "recreation"
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This, in turn, might lead Beijing to conclude that its only choice is to exploit its military strength to override the United States’ opposition and forcibly subsume the island, even at significant economic and political cost.
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Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
There’s also a drifting effort to investigate the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility of Black women, especially early in the film when Frida is at work, but that is disappointingly subsumed by later action.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
Rather than respond directly to debates about the duties of the artist, Heaney subsumed them in his art.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
Tangerang, Banten’s largest city, sits right on Jakarta’s western edge, almost subsumed by the capital city’s massive sprawl.
—Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
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Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
There’s also a drifting effort to investigate the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility of Black women, especially early in the film when Frida is at work, but that is disappointingly subsumed by later action.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
Rather than respond directly to debates about the duties of the artist, Heaney subsumed them in his art.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
Tangerang, Banten’s largest city, sits right on Jakarta’s western edge, almost subsumed by the capital city’s massive sprawl.
—Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
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