subsume

IPA: sˈʌbsˈum

verb

To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

Examples of "subsume" in Sentences

Fruits subsume apples and oranges.
But his mannerisms subsume the performance.
It threatens to subsume the entire landscape.
The one side usually tries to subsume the other.
Quite obviously the diatonic scale 'subsumes' the major scale.
The town has been subsumed into the neighboring town of Colona.
Aesthetic concerns subsumed the didactic and a sense of form developed.
Prefix and suffix may be subsumed under the term adfix in contrast to infix.
The APRN model will subsume geriatric medicine training into a broader category.
So how about we subsume “states rights” within the general concept of “subsidiarity”?
The Bill will subsume conservation area consent into the town and country planning system.
Technocratic bad ideas tend to co-opt and subsume the elites and those with money and power.
Ms. Sussman, who was born in England in 1961 but lives and works in Brooklyn, has the ability to subsume viewers in opulence with images as thick and sweet as molasses.
And finally, "A few collections of essays on novelists or various aspects of fiction have been especially valuable because of the attitudes torwards fiction that subsume them:"
But in the world of professional cooking, learning requires you to subsume yourself and your ego in the undifferentiated mass that labors at the bottom of the kitchen hierarchy.
"subsume" the least of individual things except in so far as the material element which is its body would surround all living things and bring them into contact with one another.
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.
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.
A statement which so mischaracterised the nature of the relationship between any supporters and their national side that it threatened to subsume all legitimate definitions of trust into its black hole of idiocy.
The truth about Custer --- which is to say one of the truths about him --- that Berger is getting at through Jack Crabb is that Custer was intensely charismatic and he had that ability charismatic leaders have of convincing other people to subsume their egos in his and to start seeing the world the way they do, as being all about and for them.

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