subsection
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subsections
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verb (used with object)
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"I'm not campaigning for death. I'm campaigning to be seen as not a subsection of human," she said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In a 2019 corporate sustainability report from Carlyle, Rana was featured as a mentee of a senior Black executive under a subsection called “Leading By Example in ESG Practices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
There’s a subsection of A-Listers in L.A. — true film nerds — who attend AMC showings frequently but also patronize local independent theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
Instead, the guilty verdict appears farther down, in the sixth paragraph of the article’s lead section and in a separate subsection about the Stormy Daniels case.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024
Following this, the third subsection explains the issue of prespecified verbal formulas.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Once relegated to small subsections of U.S. book and video rental stores, manga tales and anime are becoming key to retaining and attracting customers on streaming services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
In individual chapters, subsections explain the many ways to approach an introductory topic such as multiplication.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Schwartz herself accomplishes something similar across the short subsections of each chapter, slowly and elegantly assembling a sprawling boardinghouse out of the twigs and branches of sometimes little-studied lives.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
A more interesting statistic, though, is found in one of the subsections of the survey.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023
Though practically belonging to the “unit,” the subsections work independently in charge of a certain gear.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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