subsume
verb (used with object)
to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
have subsumed
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present perfectof subsume.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Peet and Wyman have subsumed the question of money into the vaguer question of value, which is to say values.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
Eisinger, I suspect, is too disciplined and traditional a journalist to have subsumed his arguments about the DOJ within a fist-person story of discovery.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2017
The United Kingdom has survived against the odds because the English have subsumed some of their identity and all of their institutions into those of the whole: Britain.
From Economist ● Jun. 18, 2015
