How to Use subset in a Sentence

subset

noun
  • Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
  • That is good news for the subset of Rangers fans/Swifties.
    Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The teahouse also sells tea ware and a subset of its thick menu of teas.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Coming soon Those of you shopping in the mid-range subset, hold tight.
    Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That said, a number of the software packages failed to complete a subset of the tests.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • And to the consumer point, for a true sports fan, this product only has a subset of sports.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Only this tiny, tiny subset of the photons can get out.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • For this subset, $8 a month may not be worth it, no matter how many memes Musk posts about the cost of a cup of coffee.
    Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In some sense, snakes are really just a subset of lizards.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • One is a change to the placement of a subset of chip interconnects.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The cases of voter fraud, Thomas added, are a small subset of the millions of votes that are cast in state elections.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This subset of the far-right has been quietly gaining ground for years.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2024
  • This step will help a subset of workers but does nothing to address the high cost of living.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • So, for the last two or three seasons, there has been a subset of Dodger fans who called for the banishment of Kenley Jansen.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • Those results, which are a subset of items carved out of the larger state test, showed 22% of the state’s third graders were not reading at grade level.
    al, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The researchers further confirmed Covid-19 as the cause of death through lung biopsies on a select subset.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • In a world where so much truth is malleable and relative, there is a subset of that world in language where truth is fixed.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 30 May 2024
  • On one side of the camp is a beach and tidal mud flats—where a subset of bears digs for clams and other food—and behind it is a salt marsh meadow full of sedges.
    Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This finding held up in the subset of people who would have received the oral vaccine in childhood decades ago.
    Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Not long ago, the security team was a subset of the IT department.
    Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • For years, though, only a subset of surgeons ventured into the deep neck.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 1 May 2024
  • All of these axioms state that there are certain sets: for example, the empty set or the power set (the set of all subsets) of a set.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Lupino is known for her contributions to the noir genre, and this film fits that subset of thrillers perfectly.
    cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • And again, even this increase would have been only for a tiny subset of the population.
    Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Humans, monkeys and apes make up a subset of primates known as the higher primates, which evolved to eat fruit.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • And for the subset of people who become sick enough to need clinical care, the consequences could get even worse.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Burkard’s 1976 creation were aimed at a specific subset of men.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 19 July 2022
  • There is a very small subset of classified information that there is a sign-in and sign-out process.
    ABC News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But this subset of customers had to drive 45 minutes, at minimum, to get to their closest Bloomingdale’s.
    David Moin, WWD, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, the fraud detection efforts rely on machine learning, the subset of AI that excels at analyzing vast amounts of data, and making decisions and predictions based on what it’s learned.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024

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