subsume
verb (used with object)
to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
had subsumed
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past perfectof subsume.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By then, the controversies that always lapped at Alatorre had subsumed his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024
Until he had subsumed the article under certain categories he had come to accept, appreciation was impossible for him.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
