Meaning of subsume in English
(Definition of subsume from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of subsume
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There is an unavoidable and often unbearable density and diversity of musical practices that are routinely subsumed under the label 'popular music'.
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Both kinds of opacity, non-surface-apparent and non-surface-true, are subsumed under sympathy theory.
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If this tool is subsumed by other cultural influences, then the exclusive base of a country's nationalism will be undermined.
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The problem of boredom as a health care issue has been subsumed under research on other complaints such as depression, apathy, or fatigue.
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Assumption 1 is subsumed by assumption 3 and is redundant.
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These traits are subsumed into collecting as a significant aspect of social identity, involving the acquisition of cultural capital, overlaid with a patina of nostalgia.
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These potentially conflicting identities can then be subsumed under the monarch's benevolent patronage.
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There are cases that fall under neither rubric but are subsumed by sympathy.
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All other matters, including those pertaining to women, were subsumed by such considerations.
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The term recruitment subsumes a multitude of different ways in which traits come to be used in behaviour.
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Pregnant women are routinely expected to subsume their appetites and desires into those that would be in keeping with the well-being of the fetus.
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Since individual environmental variance also subsumes measurement errors, the heritability and effect of family environment are proportionally deflated by the value of the reliability.
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Components, modules, systems, and similar entities are subsumed under the term system.
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In this case neither of the pre-existing senses is general enough to subsume the other.
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The concept of the life course is often subsumed within a contemporary sociology that assumes a high degree of diversity, fluidity and individual choice.
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