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Even more consequential was the trust that the Barbers placed in Marshall Stearns, who had an academic pedigree in medieval literature and a subsuming interest in the ethnomusicology of jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

As part of his vision of France as an independent global power, he began working to create a postcolonial sphere of influence by subsuming the new nations into an exclusive French zone called Françafrique.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

His death allowed Franco to eliminate a rival and take control of the Falangists, subsuming them to a broader far-right movement that supported his dictatorship.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2023

Shawky, who would return to bustling, modernized Alexandria on holidays, was struck by the contrast between his birthplace and Saudi Arabia, which was transforming into a capitalist society and subsuming its tribal cultures.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling