as in included
to have as part of a whole
games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of "recreation"
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Recent Examples of subsumed
Year after year, the transit needs of the Baltimore region get subsumed.
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Brandon Scott, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2026
Atonal loops bloom and fold into themselves, while the drums and synth, repeating on an infinite cycle, get subsumed by gigantic bass frequencies.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 24 Feb. 2026
The pair previously had an overall deal at Showtime, but with that brand now subsumed into Paramount+, Lyle and Nickerson’s home will move to Paramount’s studio side.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
But ends were subsumed into homogenous bowls and lost their charge in the process.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
What the files do seem to confirm, though, is the conspiracy theorist’s view of an elite stratosphere, where normal rules don’t apply, everyone knows each other, and ideological differences are subsumed to self-interested motives.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 14 Feb. 2026
Warner Brothers waits to be subsumed by Netflix or Paramount, cinemas are losing customers to streaming, and franchise entertainment continues to dumb us all down.
—Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
Here, as with Job — a recent tech thriller onstage that was far more shocking than Data, though also quite neat — theater is still straining to address the question of how people get subsumed by Silicon Valley’s layers of compromise.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
Feingold watched with alarm as, in the wake of 9/11, the country’s immigration policy was subsumed by counterterrorism.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Brandon Scott, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2026
Atonal loops bloom and fold into themselves, while the drums and synth, repeating on an infinite cycle, get subsumed by gigantic bass frequencies.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 24 Feb. 2026
The pair previously had an overall deal at Showtime, but with that brand now subsumed into Paramount+, Lyle and Nickerson’s home will move to Paramount’s studio side.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
But ends were subsumed into homogenous bowls and lost their charge in the process.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
What the files do seem to confirm, though, is the conspiracy theorist’s view of an elite stratosphere, where normal rules don’t apply, everyone knows each other, and ideological differences are subsumed to self-interested motives.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 14 Feb. 2026
Warner Brothers waits to be subsumed by Netflix or Paramount, cinemas are losing customers to streaming, and franchise entertainment continues to dumb us all down.
—Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
Here, as with Job — a recent tech thriller onstage that was far more shocking than Data, though also quite neat — theater is still straining to address the question of how people get subsumed by Silicon Valley’s layers of compromise.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
Feingold watched with alarm as, in the wake of 9/11, the country’s immigration policy was subsumed by counterterrorism.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsumed
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Discussions have included an off-ramp for President Miguel Díaz-Canel and for members of the Castro family that ruled Cuba for decades to remain on the island.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Production of this article included the use of AI.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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Now, the hospital, which treats mostly people involved with the justice system, is expanding to alleviate the county’s overlapping mental health and homelessness crisis, in what proponents described as a more compassionate approach than in the past.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Alemseged was not involved in the research.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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The oldest ice contained in Weißseespitze dates back roughly 6,000 years to the mid-Holocene, a warm period following the close of the last global ice age.—
Nidhi Sharma,
Popular Science,
13 Mar. 2026
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The object, which also contained nuts and bolts, extinguished itself without harming anyone.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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And Orlando residents can recommit themselves to the spirit of unity that encompassed their grief and pushed them to strive for something better.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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Jackie's apartment encompassed what was originally two apartments.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026
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Some of the more seasoned staff, including and especially the indefatigable charge nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa), remember the days before everyone carried an iPad well enough to keep things moving.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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As the driver took off, the frantic mother carried her son back inside the hospital, where teams of doctors performed chest compressions and other rescue efforts, but failed to save him.—
Dave Carlin,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Subsumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsumed. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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