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Six example sentences with subsume, each labelled with its topic.
The new division subsumes both regional teams, and the old reporting lines disappear at the end of the quarter.
Business
Aristotle subsumes courage, temperance and justice under a single account of the good life, treating them as one habit.
Philosophy
The revised statute subsumes four earlier acts, so a lawyer now cites one section where she once cited four.
Law
The new classification subsumes three former species under a single name, since their genomes differ by less than one percent.
Science
The updated library subsumes the two older packages, so one import now replaces both of them.
Technology
The merger subsumed the small farmers' party into the larger coalition, and its name vanished from the ballot.
Politics
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