How to Use subsume in a Sentence

subsume

verb
Definition of subsumenext
Synonyms for subsumenext
  • Flowering leeks have a tough stalk that subsumes the rest of the plant.
    — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • For these reasons, the phrase web3 may yet subsume the word Metaverse.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Her last outing was subsumed by her and Sanders's spat.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
  • That the things that are hers are getting subsumed into theirs.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The trials of the young prince are just one dimension of the angst that threatens to subsume the White House and the president.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 1 Mar. 2018
  • By then, Lemon City had been subsumed by the city and become urbanized.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Just a word that could be grown over and enveloped, repurposed and subsumed like all the others.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The buildup to the summit has been subsumed by anger over Trump's protectionism.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • The billings subsumed all of the woman's settlement, leaving her with no money from the case.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Sheldon thanks her for explaining her fears to him—and for using the word subsumed—and the credits roll.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The new search will subsume Windows search and show local files among its results.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2018
  • All of the shares are worth the same amount as the different financing terms are subsumed into the common stock.
    — Chana R. Schoenberger, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Then the climate got colder, and ice subsumed the entire region.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • For some, the pressures of success subsume their talent.
    — Chloé Cooper Jones, GQ, 25 May 2018
  • By this time, waters will have already subsumed much of the coastline from Freeport, south of Houston, all the way to New Orleans.
    — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
  • We have been taught to subsume anything even resembling anger at all costs.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2018
  • Any trace of the agenda movie is subsumed in pulsing human drama.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • In Charlton’s work, the female form is at once the fount of extravagant nature and subsumed by it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The whole issue was subsumed by a failure to make distinctions—between a hand on a backside and rape.
    — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
  • There was a growing sense that the roiling underground was rising up to subsume the status quo.
    — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The trick, though, is that the sport has managed to subsume all of that — all of these things that happen to it, these currents beyond its control — into part of the story.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Massasoit didn't want his people subsumed and thought the English might be a strong ally.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Beyond the horizon, waiting to subsume them all, lies the internet.
    — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The Crosstrek Hybrid was one of those interesting normal cars that was sort of subsumed by the glitz of the show (both in terms of cars and, at Subaru's own stand, a dog kissing booth).
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • This can make Donut County feel a bit like a disjointed set of distinct puzzles, rather than a wide world ready to be explored and subsumed.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2018
  • What is clear is that the past is surfacing in the Volunteer’s mind, as if she is being subsumed by nature and the island itself.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And their role has largely been subsumed by the modern Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • Students took turns coating the principal's hair and scalp, as the blue spray subsumed Cavaliere's head.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 15 May 2018
  • The rhythms of the men’s lives have been upended; doubt has subsumed certainty, and rage mixes with helplessness.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023

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