Terry Pratchett

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

English Author

Dan Smith

Most friendship groups will have someone who starts a new relationship, and you just don't see them for four months. And that's always kind of sad, almost like an inverted break up. I guess the ideal situation is that whoever the new partner is can be subsumed into the friendship group.

British Musician

James Watkins

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.

English Director

Lawrence M. Krauss

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

American Physicist

Mira Nair

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Indian Director

Leo Strauss

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

German Philosopher

Evan Bayh

Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.

American Politician

Nick Woodman

The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.

American Businessman

James Murphy

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

American Musician

Katherine Dunn

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

American Novelist

Think of 'subsume' as a way to show that one thing is becoming a part of something bigger.

Absorption Concept

'Subsume' often implies a broad or general category is including smaller, more specific items.

Broad Inclusion

Using 'subsume' can suggest that the individual characteristics are lost within the larger group.

Implied Loss

When used in an academic context, 'subsume' adds a formal tone to the discussion of categories.

Academic Tone

'Subsume' suggests a hierarchy where one set of rules or principles governs another.

Hierarchical Ordering

Think of 'subsume' as a mental process of organizing information into categories.

Intellectual Process

 I have been a public defender for over half my life, and I have stood by and watched thousands of clients as they were dragged into those jail cells because they didn't have enough money to pay bail. I have watched as questions of justice were subsumed by questions of money,

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 people inside be subsumed by it so that was precisely the message that we created celebrating people over the institution it is a place where people from all kinds of different backgrounds come together and collaborate and that's