How to Use subset in a Sentence

subset

noun
  • Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
  • The set {1,2,3} is a subset of the set {1,2,3,4,5}.
  • That is good news for the subset of Rangers fans/Swifties.
    Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Coming soon Those of you shopping in the mid-range subset, hold tight.
    Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • And to the consumer point, for a true sports fan, this product only has a subset of sports.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For this subset, $8 a month may not be worth it, no matter how many memes Musk posts about the cost of a cup of coffee.
    Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • One is a change to the placement of a subset of chip interconnects.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The cases of voter fraud, Thomas added, are a small subset of the millions of votes that are cast in state elections.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This step will help a subset of workers but does nothing to address the high cost of living.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The researchers further confirmed Covid-19 as the cause of death through lung biopsies on a select subset.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • On one side of the camp is a beach and tidal mud flats—where a subset of bears digs for clams and other food—and behind it is a salt marsh meadow full of sedges.
    Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This finding held up in the subset of people who would have received the oral vaccine in childhood decades ago.
    Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And for the subset of people who become sick enough to need clinical care, the consequences could get even worse.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • There is a very small subset of classified information that there is a sign-in and sign-out process.
    ABC News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Thanks to sky-high gas taxes, this subset of drivers pay the state of Maryland well over $1 billion each year for road repair.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a subset of younger artists coming into the pop music scene that are brimming with talent.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • That subset was weighted to its proper share of the overall adult population of the United States.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The study also included brain scans of a subset of the participants.
    Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Crenshaw aims to get people thinking equally about all who’ve lost their lives in this way, rather than just a gendered subset of them.
    Rita Omokha, ELLE, 18 July 2023
  • The eight books below offer a variety of survival skill subsets, and can be valuable resources in the wild, at home, or even lost at sea.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But a key difference between that and A.I. is that retail investors are just a small subset of the overall market.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This figure drops even further for Latinxs born in the U.S.; the median age for this subset of the population was 21.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But there is a subset of this group that wants to be taken seriously and shouldn’t be lumped in with people who just want clout or are paid by studios.
    Vulture, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Its staying power may be a testament to this approach, at least for a certain subset of users.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
  • NFTs, a subset of the crypto world, became broadly popular in 2021.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As to that, Brasier smartly avoids social media and isn’t aware that his spot on the roster has been a hot topic among a large subset of fans this winter.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • If the procedure is repeated, the density of A over some subset exceeds 100%.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Every game represents kind of a new subset of challenges.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But a vocal subset of Americans seemed troubled that the government was doing so much to help.
    Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Northern white rhinos are just a distinct subset, or subspecies, of white rhino.
    Anna Funk, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023

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