How to Use subfield in a Sentence

subfield

noun
  • So there was this mini-debate brewing in this subfield of global public health.
    — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • However, there are seven main subfields within it.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
  • Blindsiding an entire subfield of mathematics was not one of them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Today quantum information science is among the most vibrant subfields in all of physics.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Then as now, the experts of a subfield by and large failed to predict the most seismic political event in a generation.
    — Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Famous speeches delivered at the congress have gone on to redefine entire subfields of math.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Those studies belong to a new subfield of immunology sometimes referred to as immunometabolism.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The second is that biology has many highly specialized subfields, each with its own techniques and jargon.
    — ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
  • An answer can be found in a quirky academic subfield known as the political economy of religion.
    — Anthony Gill, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Tao studies an arcane subfield of chemistry that focusses on how chemicals react on the surfaces of substances.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The recent wave of quantum thermodynamics that has become widely accepted as a subfield is very new.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In its pages, Kahneman marveled at great length over the findings of a subfield of psychology known as social priming.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a whole subfield of mathematics dedicated to this practice.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • There’s simply too much knowledge for any single person to absorb, even in a single subfield of research, and even if the work were always written very clearly.
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Some senior astronomers doubted that the flashy, resource-hungry subfield could deliver much more than one-off measurements of a few unique planets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But with over 40 main disciplines and hundreds of subfields, deciding where to focus can feel overwhelming.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The drillers pulled up hundreds of cylinders of ice, which turned out to contain a wealth of information about the climate and helped make ice drilling a scientific subfield.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This approach, not surprisingly, dominates the IR subfield there as well.
    — Peter Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2013
  • The Stefan problem is a foundational example for an entire subfield of math where boundaries move.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2021
  • By the mid-1900s, science had fractured into subfields, each with its own requirements for expertise.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Robert Shiller, who helped create the subfield now known as behavioural finance (and won a Nobel prize), reckons that ideas about markets spread like an epidemic.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • At the time of her PhD, there was little to no research that had been on the proteomics of bone in forensic science, and the subfield is still somewhat in its infancy.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The result was a landmark in the subfield of mathematics called additive combinatorics.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The first person to harness this power was Georg Cantor, the founder of the mathematical subfield of set theory.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Britton was one of the first researchers in her subfield to bring subjects into the laboratory overnight, measuring their brain waves, eye movements, and muscle tension.
    — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Of the many subfields in classics, papyrology is perhaps the most difficult to understand but also the most bewitching.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • The aim of the subfield of social robotics called socially assistive robotics is to interact with ever more diverse groups of people.
    — Mark Paterson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Machine learning is a subfield of AI, and both technologies are often mentioned in connection with one another.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Machine learning, a subfield of AI, learns from vast quantities of data and hence carries the risk of perpetuating data bias.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • This entry traces the evolution of environmental communication and its subfields of study.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026

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