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Some fields are worse than others: biology and medicine are closer to 3%, and some subfields, such as cancer, may be much larger, Day said.
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Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Humanoids Take The Spotlight In 2024, humanoids went from a subfield historically seen as a source of military contracts and marketing videos to a dominant area of focus.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Swarm intelligence is a subfield of AI that draws inspiration from the collective behavior of social insects, such as ants, bees and termites.
—Thomas Caldwell, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The feature uses on-device machine learning, a subfield of AI, to detect scam texts including fraudulent package delivery texts and job scam texts.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
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Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Humanoids Take The Spotlight In 2024, humanoids went from a subfield historically seen as a source of military contracts and marketing videos to a dominant area of focus.
—Jeff Mahler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Swarm intelligence is a subfield of AI that draws inspiration from the collective behavior of social insects, such as ants, bees and termites.
—Thomas Caldwell, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The feature uses on-device machine learning, a subfield of AI, to detect scam texts including fraudulent package delivery texts and job scam texts.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
Noun
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Child abuse pediatrics is a relatively new subspecialty whose practitioners work closely with police officers and social workers to investigate potential cases of intentional harm.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
29 Dec. 2024
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Child-abuse pediatrics is a relatively new subspecialty whose practitioners work closely with police officers and social workers to investigate potential cases of intentional harm.—
Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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Their worlds feel just as grand in scope as famously massive games like The Elder Scrolls — presenting lush alien lands filled with tons of diverse creatures and wildlife, and hundreds of individual NPCs that often have unique stories to tell.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Kickstart Your Day with The Morning Jolt The practice of individual judges, in locales favorable to the litigants, issuing injunctions that are nationwide in scope and affect parties not before the courts raises many grave objections.—
The Editors,
National Review,
19 Mar. 2025
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By measuring the difference in the amplitude, meteorologists could extract the data necessary to track rainfall using the signal processing algorithms.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2024
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The researchers examined three key eye measurements before and after spaceflight: ocular rigidity, which reflects the stiffness of eye tissue, intraocular pressure, the fluid pressure inside the eye, and ocular pulse amplitude, the variation in eye pressure with each heartbeat.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Microplastics are fragments of plastic measuring less than five millimeters long—some may be the size of a pencil eraser, while others are several times smaller than the width of a human hair.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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The distance between your hands in this stance is the width of the most comfortable handlebar for your bike.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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For this list of the best spy movies ever made, Vulture opted for a big-tent approach in an attempt to create a selection that captured the full breadth of the spy film.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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That process is expected — or hoped — to start next week, and the final budget will reveal the full breadth of not just the deficit but the measures taken by lawmakers to close it.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
17 Mar. 2025
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This profession provides a career that can support a family for a lifetime.—
Ryan Dohrn,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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In a world where so many are facing daily struggles in their lives, the theme speaks to the core of our profession: the need to transform compassion into tangible action and produce positive, lasting results.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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To the extent Medicare receives funding from the states, expect higher state and local taxes, property taxes, and consumption taxes like sales and use taxes, to cover the shortfall.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Also striking: several court cases in Florida highlight the extent to which criminal networks operate to funnel weapons to Haiti and its menacing gangs.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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