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UK
/sʌbsˈuːm/
]
VERB
- consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
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contain or include
This new system subsumes the old one
How To Use subsume In A Sentence
- However, the commission also subsumes the precautionary principle under a broader framework of risk analysis.
- Like Misael in La Libertad, Vargas is a nonactor whose character carries his real-life name, but whose being is subsumed more intensely and intensively into Alonso's fiction. Artforum.com
- The older I get, the less I want to subsume my entire life's work and hopes into some poor small person who would have done nothing to deserve the resentment I would surely feel. Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing
- Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father.
- But now everything she had once seen as colourful, lyrical, dramatic, even, was subsumed into a vast, unquenchable litany of light. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
- While has been completely subsumed by the with a whimper not a bang bowing out of Belle de Jour.
- Infact, after controlling for regional heterogeneity, any one of these three variables is sufficient to subsume the impact of regime type on wars, militarized interstate disputes (MIDs), and fatal disputes. Moral and Mental Development, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- After that the two alliances might be subsumed into a new European security system.
- It is a kind of enveloping void that subsumes the senses into a kind of frozen present.
- By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next. Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be