Examples of subset in a Sentence
The set {1,2,3} is a subset of the set {1,2,3,4,5}.
Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
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Another tax break that could apply to a subset of filers is the bigger cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT.
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Today, search engines are a very small part of our referral traffic, and third-party agents are a very small subset of that.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2025
One of Pritam’s earliest works, it was published in 1950, before Partition literature became a critical subset of South Asian literature more generally.
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Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married, there has been a subset of people who have been convinced that their differences would lead to divorce.
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Today, search engines are a very small part of our referral traffic, and third-party agents are a very small subset of that.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2025
One of Pritam’s earliest works, it was published in 1950, before Partition literature became a critical subset of South Asian literature more generally.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married, there has been a subset of people who have been convinced that their differences would lead to divorce.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Subset.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subset. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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subset
noun
sub·set
ˈsəb-ˌset 
: a mathematical set that is a part of another mathematical set
the set of even numbers is a subset of the set of all numbers
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