How to Use subgroup in a Sentence

subgroup

noun
  • That edge flips to Lake among the subgroup of those certain to vote: 45% Hobbs vs. 46% Lake.
    Victoria Balara, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Regulators cleared the use of the initial half-dose for the subgroup of the trial.
    Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • It’s not just one section or one subgroup of people for this cause.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2021
  • In China, the Hmong people are classified as a subgroup of the Miao people.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But among the many New Yorkers who know Mr. Deshmukh only a bit, there is a subgroup of people who know him a bit more.
    Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The gender subgroup is composed of Males and Females, each with their own column.
    oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022
  • By age and gender, Trump falls into the subgroup of people whose immune system may not be able to fend off the virus.
    Gina Kolata and Apoorva Mandavilli, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • By age and gender, Mr. Trump falls into the subgroup of people whose immune system may not be able to fend off the virus on its own.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
  • To qualify, the schoolwide performance scored in the top 15% in the state and in the top 40% for each subgroup of students in all three testing areas.
    Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The small subgroup of independents favor Barnes by two-to-one.
    Dana Blanton | Fox News, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • That may be true for the overall population, but does not appear to be the case for the subgroup of women under 50.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Flavanols are a subgroup of flavonoids, which are found in foods such as tea (mainly green but also black) and fruits such as apples, pears and berries.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Oct. 2020
  • But this subgroup was too small to prove such high efficacy.
    Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • What are the leading causes of death for other, smaller subgroups?
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Did the pollster publish crosstabs for every subgroup mentioned in the poll release?
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The subgroup of this trend is tennis skirts, both the old-school pleated kind and the athletic skort variety.
    Meg Donohue, ELLE, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Among the small subgroup of voters who have a negative view of both Biden and Trump, Fetterman is favored over Oz by 30 points.
    Dana Blanton | Fox News, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • Students’ math scores decreased in all regions of the country and in nearly all student subgroups.
    Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 21 June 2023
  • The findings were similar across a range of subgroups, including each of the two locations and for those with HbA1c above and below 9.5.
    Marcella Alsan, STAT, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Assign each subgroup a task to discuss for, say, 15 minutes, and then reconvene the larger group.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For results based on subgroups, the margin of sampling error may be higher.
    Noam N. Levey, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • On the other hand, Etsy and Rakuten occupy the same industry subgroup as eBay.
    Nushin Huq, Fortune, 30 May 2022
  • Rather, the skulls examined in the facial profiling study were part of a subgroup within the main Caribbean group.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The gap increased for certain subgroups of Black immigrants.
    Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The panel includes varieties from all five subgroups of rice, spanning the color spectrum from white to dark brown.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2023
  • The Croc culture is considered a subgroup of the broader sneaker culture.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But in a subgroup of volunteers who got a half dose followed by a full dose a month later, the vaccine appeared to be 90% effective.
    Maggie Fox, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Will Parsons and Neal be in every nickel package or subgroup?
    David Moore, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Over many years, a certain subgroup of Starfleet personnel had their DNA altered by using the transporter.
    Richard Forno, The Conversation, 12 May 2023
  • Mooney uses this opportunity to cycle through the different subgroups of the era, from the jocks to the underground hip-hop heads and more.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024

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