How to Use subfield in a Sentence

subfield

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  • In this field or another one, or in some subfield, somehow.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • Rozin is the pioneer of a subfield called disgust studies.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • The subfield of social psychology tends to fare even worse.
    — Jesse Singal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At the time of her PhD, there was little to no research that had been on the proteomics of bone in forensic science, and the subfield is still somewhat in its infancy.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2020
  • So there was this mini-debate brewing in this subfield of global public health.
    — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • People have been using deep learning with neural networks, a major subfield of A.I., for 40 years.
    — Astro Teller, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Robert Shiller, who helped create the subfield now known as behavioural finance (and won a Nobel prize), reckons that ideas about markets spread like an epidemic.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The first person to harness this power was Georg Cantor, the founder of the mathematical subfield of set theory.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • It’s been a subfield of immunology that hasn’t gotten a lot of public attention.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • There’s simply too much knowledge for any single person to absorb, even in a single subfield of research, and even if the work were always written very clearly.
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But in narrow subfields such as applied math or statistics, the numbers are meager compared with demand.
    — Lauren Weber, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • By the mid-1900s, science had fractured into subfields, each with its own requirements for expertise.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Because the strands of a knot are flexible like string, mathematicians view knot theory as a subfield of topology, the study of malleable shapes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Blindsiding an entire subfield of mathematics was not one of them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Some senior astronomers doubted that the flashy, resource-hungry subfield could deliver much more than one-off measurements of a few unique planets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Machine learning, a subfield of AI, learns from vast quantities of data and hence carries the risk of perpetuating data bias.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Those studies belong to a new subfield of immunology sometimes referred to as immunometabolism.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Seager, who met Kaltenegger at a summer school program in 1997, now lauds the remarkable boldness that led an undergraduate to join a subfield that was still so fringe and ephemeral.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The Stefan problem is a foundational example for an entire subfield of math where boundaries move.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Its fresh data has transformed this research area from a fringe pursuit to a vibrant, established subfield of planetary science.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • Tao studies an arcane subfield of chemistry that focusses on how chemicals react on the surfaces of substances.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Britton was one of the first researchers in her subfield to bring subjects into the laboratory overnight, measuring their brain waves, eye movements, and muscle tension.
    — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • An answer can be found in a quirky academic subfield known as the political economy of religion.
    — Anthony Gill, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Machine learning is a subfield of AI, and both technologies are often mentioned in connection with one another.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Advances in machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI), would enable cars to teach themselves to drive by drawing on reams of data from the real world.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Locomotion is a whole complicated subfield of robotics for a reason: The machines are pretty good at falling over and getting stuck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The result was a landmark in the subfield of mathematics called additive combinatorics.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Another vibrant subfield today is Chinese science fiction, which offers an outlet for subtle dissent, and gives Western readers a sense of the country’s hopes and fears.
    — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The tools historically used to study the size of a progression-free set have become widely used in the computer science subfield of complexity theory.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • An entire subfield of engineering often referred to as biomimicry or bioinspired design takes lessons directly from bird feathers, insect wings and even pterosaur membranes.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023

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