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The introduction had an unspoken subtheme: Debra Tice criticized the White House in December, saying she hadn’t been able to meet with Biden or his national security adviser to discuss her son’s plight.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022

One subtheme of his book concerns how horizontal gene transfer might influence our self-conceptions.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2019

“The subtheme there is that you are second in your marriage, that the military comes first and you just have to fall in line.”

From Salon • May 15, 2017

A subtheme of the book and of her extensive, often rambling patter was her lifelong sense of intellectual inferiority.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016

A subtheme is the overthrow of authoritarian chief executives and their besuited courtiers.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 2, 2014