Both Uses
subordinate
in
Nine Stories
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- Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.†
Story 8 *
- At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.†
Story 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)