subfield

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Recent Examples of subfield Then as now, the experts of a subfield by and large failed to predict the most seismic political event in a generation. Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 But Anfinsen’s theory launched an entire subfield of computational biology with the goal of using complex mathematics, instead of empirical experiments, to model proteins. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025 Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that works by finding patterns and relationships in data. Azarang Asadi, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2025 Whether or not scholars have agreed with all the aspects of Shohat’s analysis, her call for Mizrahi studies certainly pointed toward that subfield’s subsequent expansion. Josh Lambert, JSTOR Daily, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for subfield
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
Noun
  • Importantly, these recommendations apply to adolescents as well as adults, acknowledging that the disease often begins years before patients reach subspecialty care.
    Sarah Berg, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Experts — mass killing markers are now common enough to be their own architectural and planning subspecialty — stressed that there should be no hurry to build.
    Eric Dexheimer, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This also highlights the importance of basic cyber hygiene like unique passwords and MFA, so that when breaches happen, the scope of impact on your own personal data is contained.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There’s also Title Wave Books in Anchorage, which houses one of the most extensive collections of Indigenous American literature in the country, and Nā Mea Hawai'i, whose collection tightens its scope to Hawaiian culture and history.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Nanoplastics are the very smallest particles, about 1,000th the average width of a human hair, and are most likely to get inside the human body.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Keep in mind that chair-and-a-half recliners of 45 to 50 inches in width will be difficult to find a matching recliner slipcover for.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The breadth of recent enforcement actions and license revocations makes clear that this is a serious, ongoing problem that demands immediate and sustained action.
    Tom Koutsoumpas, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
  • One of the best things about Tripadvisor, other than the breadth of its content, is the ability to compare prices across a variety of activities, hotels, and tours all in one place.
    Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But actors from all quarters of the profession are still flocking to New York for the kind of substantive material that is becoming harder to come by on screen.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This line of thinking also invites a broader reflection on the motivations that bring clinicians into the profession.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Bayer hopes that both the Supreme Court and the pending settlement will limit the extent of future lawsuits.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The 4-3-3 unbalanced Chelsea far more frequently, to the extent Enzo Fernandez had to ask Sanchez to go down and await treatment, in order for the team to get a pep talk from Calum McFarlane.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026

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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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