Sentence examples for subsumes from inspiring English sources

"subsumes" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb which means to include or take in by absorption. An example sentence would be: "The new policy subsumes the old regulations."

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subsumes

verb

Third person singular of subsume

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Like a sprawling desert, the "mainstream" inevitably subsumes all things "alternative" over time, in both independent music and cinema.

This subsumes Zero Hunger, Lula's ill-conceived food-stamps programme, a clutch of income-transfer schemes and another PT creation, the social-assistance ministry.

The most original point in that classification is the group called Benue-Congo, which linguistically subsumes all the Bantu languages found dispersed over most of eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.

This theory subsumes Ricardo's law of comparative costs but goes beyond it in linking the pattern of trade to the economic structure of trading nations.

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, the film subsumes romantic byplay in favour of plentiful mordant humour.

Today, it subsumes health statistics, infectious diseases, and environmental health; a National Immunization Program; and an Office on Smoking and Health.

Coloured scarves symbolise everything from the road on which a worm, humorously happy with his lot, is trying to escape death by crushing from the wheels of chariot, to --when simply and hauntingly wrapped over man's face – the moment when death subsumes him.

It is, ultimately, a meditation about the genre that subsumes all others, history, of which we are subjects and to which we are subjected (to paraphrase Foucault).

In some sense, her scientist's relationship with his Creature subsumes that of Prospero with both Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest.

If he hadn't found the theatre, Mamet has said, "it's very likely I would have become a criminal — another profession that subsumes the outsider, or, perhaps more to the point, accepts people with a not very well formed ego and rewards the ability to improvise".

But Rimsky subsumes all these effects into his own surpassingly gentle vision: of a love persisting past the point of death; of callow betrayal and saintly forgiveness; of a city indivisible from nature.

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