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less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.8 — De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (47% in)
- 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.8 — De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (56% in)
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