Example Sentences

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I have idea," she continued, "that you are subordinating your general interests to your secret enmity—to one man.

From Peter Ruff and the Double Four by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

So when children play horse, play store, play house or making calls, they are subordinating the physically present to the ideally signified.

From How We Think by Dewey, John