SUBSUMED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

subsumed

verb

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past tense of subsume

as in included

to have as part of a whole games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of "recreation"

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Recent Examples of subsumed Her success brought both raves and snark, but a thing that could boldly be said of her whole deal was that it was aligned with counterculture even as it was subsumed by the mainstream. —

Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 9 May 2026 Yet today, these two once hugely profitable news operations have been subsumed within massive multinational corporations, with their legacy brand equity providing as much value to their ownership as their journalism. —

Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 7 May 2026 OpenAI is racing to beat Anthropic and Musk’s xAI, which has been subsumed by SpaceX and is trying to IPO this summer. —

Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026 Some have argued that social media activity amounts to citizen journalism, but mostly citizen journalism appeared to have been displaced or subsumed by social media. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 The watery consommé subsumed what few masa dumplings swam their lonesome swirls in the bowl, with cobs of corn left like derelict buoys in the sloppy orange miasma. —

Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026 On stage, Josh and Melissa, our wanderers from the land of reality, are subsumed into an actual musical rather than a vaguely Truman Show-style refraction. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026 Generous with his stash and with access to his phone — which Taylor uses to communicate with Adam on social media — Dee ropes the addict into his trade, though their tentative friendship is soon subsumed into the prison’s overriding culture of violence. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026 As voices arrive—some direct, some sampled—the track is subsumed by texture, demanding little in the way of lyrical comprehension. —

Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026

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By that measure, 27 percent — or 1 in 4 minutes — included at least one gambling reference.

— Luke Connors, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
Iran, which says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, was said to have included some nuclear concessions in its latest proposal to end the war.

— Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026