Every year the message of Christmas is subsumed ever more by the crass commercialism of the market.
Each Greek god had a small menagerie of sacred animals, and it may be conjectured that these animals were originally the totems of various stocks, subsumed into the worship of the anthropomorphic god.
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the memory of the war was subsumed into the history of the revolutionary process.
Methodologies are all too often subsumed into the density of the doctoral dissertation, rarely to see the light of the wider academic day.
The Romantic period saw Scottish identity subsumed within a myth of the Highlands.