were subsuming

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of subsume.
  subsume

  verb (used with object)

  to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.

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