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subsume
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  • She had lost Alessandro, who was underneath Lorna, completely subsumed.†   (source)
  • The violence from below was then productive of nothing but a retaliatory violence from above, the dream of justice became subsumed into the callousness of reality, and people settled in to a quarter century of life-waste and spirit- waste, of hardening attitudes and narrowing possibilities that were the natural result of political solidarity, traumatic suffering and sheer emotional self-protectiveness.†   (source)
  • I forgot my own being, abandoned my limited range of senses as I swam in a sea that was neither dark nor light, formed nor formless, yet knowing my way, subsumed, as it were, within a perpetual act of that thing we had decided to call ludus that was creation, destruction, and sustenance, patterned and infinitely repatterned, scattered and joined, mounting and descending, divorced from all temporal phenomena yet containing the essence of time.†   (source)
  • The acquired company retains its identity, but many think the larger company will eventually subsume it.
  • They talk of subsuming individual welfare for the sake of a family unit as though the welfare of the family unit is not a vital part of individual welfare.
  • Her work was demanding, but she did not let it subsume her identity.
  • Their wills seem to be subsumed, at least in part, by Sebastian's.†   (source)
  • He could hear each one individually and as it combined into the roar that subsumed it.†   (source)
  • It was a being-the whole thingseated on a chair that it completely subsumed.†   (source)
  • The shark seemed to unhook its jaw, doubling the size of its mouth, enabling it to easily subsume the whole of the turtle in one swallow.†   (source)
  • They hugged, Mae knowing any embrace always provided for her viewers a semi-comical, and occasionally mildly erotic, moment, as the other hugger's body swooped toward and eventually subsumed the camera's lens.†   (source)
  • If there were now 12,318 Circlers—they'd just subsumed a Philadelphia startup specializing in the gamification of affordable housing—and every one of them had voted, that meant that 369 people had frowned at her, thought she was something other than awesome.†   (source)
  • Because she still had her job, and she would not have to go back to Longfield, and because her father would stay strong and her mother unburdened, she wanted to be held by Bailey, to be subsumed by his wisdom and generosity.†   (source)
  • He had subsumed himself in Sebastian, had given over his will entirely, and it had been pleasurable and easy, and down in the darkest depths of his treacherous heart, Jace knew that part of him wanted it again.†   (source)
  • The Bible and the Enochian texts mention quite a few, disguised and subsumed, of course, into stories and myths.†   (source)
  • Alessandro lost himself for a moment in the great hall where bookshelves rose to a vaulted ceiling five storeys high, and stained glass windows at either end made the scholars feel both that they were submerged in a tropical sea and that they would be prepared were scholasticism subsumed in theocracy.†   (source)
  • All the gods, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas have been subsumed in us, as in the halo of the mighty holder of the lotus of the world.†   (source)
  • As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos.†   (source)
  • And, of course, what prompted Naphta to call patriotism a plague was asceticism—what all did he not subsume under that concept, what all, in his opinion, did not oppose asceticism and the kingdom of God!†   (source)
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