Sample Sentences for
subsume
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  • Many moral rules can be subsumed under the broader principle of fairness.
    subsumed = classified (as part of a larger idea)
  • I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward.  (source)
    subsumed = absorbed
  • 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)
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  • She had lost Alessandro, who was underneath Lorna, completely subsumed.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Their wills seem to be subsumed, at least in part, by Sebastian's.†  (source)
  • But he had that quality which we always vaguely subsumed under 'thinking like a lawyer.'†  (source)
  • You were now subsumed into the superorganism.†  (source)
  • That evening, as I wended my way along our camp's perimeter, subsumed in the rhythmic din of birds and insects calling out from the jungle, I couldn't help but think of the sorry line of the girls entering the commander's house, led by the physician, Captain Ono.†  (source)
  • The message was directed by computer to Central Codes, a station that handled the coding of all projects subsumed under the system of Cooler.†  (source)
  • Some freshmen lost their fear very quickly; others lost their fear when it was subsumed by their total, passionate faith in the system.†  (source)
  • They looked like they'd been grown and nurtured in colossal vats, a jumble of mutated cells that had been made to grow around a mechanical core until the machinery and engines were subsumed and buried within living tissues.†  (source)
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