How to Use subsume in a Sentence

subsume

verb
  • Many high-skill roles will be subsumed, and leaders will need to adapt.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • How can it not be subsumed into this vast trough of the culture?
    — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
  • Flowering leeks have a tough stalk that subsumes the rest of the plant.
    — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • That the things that are hers are getting subsumed into theirs.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
  • In the second, that body is subsumed into the world.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • At times, the taut drama on the court was subsumed by the spectacle off it.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • We have been taught to subsume anything even resembling anger at all costs.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2018
  • Frostbite subsumed large swaths of their bodies.
    — Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But ends were subsumed into homogenous bowls and lost their charge in the process.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • These mating events subsumed the other species into one large group.
    — Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • For these reasons, the phrase web3 may yet subsume the word Metaverse.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Any trace of the agenda movie is subsumed in pulsing human drama.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The new search will subsume Windows search and show local files among its results.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Just a word that could be grown over and enveloped, repurposed and subsumed like all the others.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • But those hopes dimmed as the protests fizzled out, subsumed by a wave of arrests and mass repression.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
  • At one points, the fallout from the texts threatened to subsume the governor’s race.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In daytime, the rumbling of the steppe is subsumed by bright, relentless light.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • We’re subsumed, for better and worse, in The Bear’s trauma plot.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024
  • Then the climate got colder, and ice subsumed the entire region.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • During the eclipse, your sense of self isn’t completely subsumed by emotion.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The teacher explained that the island might soon be subsumed by rising sea levels.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Sheldon thanks her for explaining her fears to him—and for using the word subsumed—and the credits roll.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The billings subsumed all of the woman's settlement, leaving her with no money from the case.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2018
  • By then, Lemon City had been subsumed by the city and become urbanized.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Those thorny questions will subsume much of the energy at the Capitol.
    — Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Des Moines Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • What was undeniably true was that one of us was not simply going to subsume the other.
    — Steve Wieberg, kansascity, 16 June 2017
  • The worst part, though, is that her public image has subsumed Carolyn’s own idea of herself.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • There was a growing sense that the roiling underground was rising up to subsume the status quo.
    — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The whole issue was subsumed by a failure to make distinctions—between a hand on a backside and rape.
    — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018

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