To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
The word 'subsume' is correct and usable in written English. You can use this word when describing how one entity is included or absorbed into another. For example, "The cost of healthcare was subsumed into the national budget.".
The Coke ad which then played was Weiner wittily acknowledging how fast the corporate world – which created 'Don Draper' – would subsume the counter-culture.
One issue between them has been Gergiev's attempt to subsume the academy under the umbrella organisation of the Mariinksy, something that the Vaganova has staunchly resisted.
Craig Kreeger, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, promised that despite the predictions of rival IAG boss Willie Walsh, Delta would not subsume Branson's airline.
Assuming that Mr Kerry is confirmed, he will of course have to subsume his own views and become a loyal servant of the president.
In particular, it can subsume rival products, such as fax programs, calendars and countless other PC "utilities", by replicating them and then embedding them for free in the Windows operating system.
In capturing an outright parliamentary majority in the 2012 election, the nominally left-wing Smer successfully adopted a watered-down form of nationalism to subsume nationalist voters.
It should eventually subsume West Africa's existing currency bloc but not its central African cousin.In this section Not fully inflated Trading up Hock and sinker Concentrating binds Zone of contention Ever closer Fixed harmony Stagnant thinking ReprintsUnder the proposal an initial group of six countries will adopt the eco by 2015 (see map).
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