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Recent Examples of subcomponent
The funding goes to 10 subcomponents in the agency, but the vast majority of it goes to just one: the Office of Federal Student Aid, which received $179.65 billion in FY 2024.
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Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Currently testing reactor subcomponents; successful prototype in 2015 could lead to commercial reactor in 2020.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
To reach the overall fitness standard, students must reach the fitness standard for all four subcomponents.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
Students taking the fitness assessment are evaluated across four subcomponents: upper body strength and endurance, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, aerobic endurance and flexibility.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
The Export-Import Bank of the United States was at the bottom of the small agencies category while the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with a score of 38.1 out 100, was at the bottom of the subcomponents list.
—Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 May 2024
There was, however, a year-over-year decrease in all of the subcomponents of job satisfaction compared for both men and women.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 6 May 2024
None of the nine subcomponents of Valley National Bank’s $28.2 billion commercial real estate portfolio account for more than 25% of it.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Currently testing reactor subcomponents; successful prototype in 2015 could lead to commercial reactor in 2020.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
To reach the overall fitness standard, students must reach the fitness standard for all four subcomponents.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
Students taking the fitness assessment are evaluated across four subcomponents: upper body strength and endurance, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, aerobic endurance and flexibility.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
The Export-Import Bank of the United States was at the bottom of the small agencies category while the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with a score of 38.1 out 100, was at the bottom of the subcomponents list.
—Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 May 2024
There was, however, a year-over-year decrease in all of the subcomponents of job satisfaction compared for both men and women.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 6 May 2024
None of the nine subcomponents of Valley National Bank’s $28.2 billion commercial real estate portfolio account for more than 25% of it.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcomponent
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The new station’s components were 3D-printed elsewhere and assembled on site last month, in what the railway’s operators say is a world first.—
Noriko Hayashi,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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If every component was made in the U.S., the costs would be astronomical.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Lastly, the Constitutional Court deliberated at length and came to its decision—even if a large section of the nation of 50 million disagrees with it as evidenced by the crowds thronging Seoul’s streets.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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That section’s willingness to hush itself contrasted mightily with the inability of the trumpets and trombones to do the same.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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Mary, Chrissy, Kamilla, Kyle, David, Star, and Sai (who got the advantage fast pass to the individual portion of the contest) then advanced to round two.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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ByteDance originally faced a Jan. 19 deadline to sell TikTok, but Trump signed an executive order instructing the attorney general to not enforce the law, granting the company 75 more days to unload the U.S. portion of its business.—
CJ Haddad,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
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What To Know The Weekend Update segment did not hold back, with Jost and Che ruthlessly mocking the scandal.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025
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What's more, the series is producing a sequel to a previous segment for the first time in Black Mirror history.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Donna is a writer, editor and scholar of classics Donna is the only Zuckerberg sibling to not pursue a career in the tech sector.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The government is attempting to restructure the U.S auto sector on a basis driven more by ideology — its determination to force more car production to be located within U.S. borders — than economic efficiency.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Mar. 2025
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This approach resembles an attempt to control every particle of an ecosystem, treating each team member merely as a cog in a complex machine.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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These ejections refer to plasma erupting from the sun's surface, which can force particles from the sun and surrounding space to collide with particles in the Earth's atmosphere.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In addition to the atlatl, the archaeologists also found a fragment of a boomerang, long wooden tips that might have been used to deliver poison to prey, and wooden darts and stone tips.—
Livia Albeck-Ripka,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The fragments scattered themselves across the soft ground of Costa Rican jungle and grasslands, where they were subsequently found by meteorite hunters and volunteers.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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As Verbeek changed back into her street clothes, the conversation turned to other elements of the wedding, which was going to be held, in eleven months, at the former estate of the sculptor Daniel Chester French, in the Berkshires.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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When building or updating a home, lean into timeless and traditional elements.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Subcomponent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcomponent. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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