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Recent Examples of subcomponent
As Beijing tightens trade restrictions on exporting drones, many drone manufacturers are now working quickly to try to find ways to build drone subcomponents onshore themselves.
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Natan Linder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The bill also includes strict provisions excluding projects that use any Chinese components, minerals or subcomponents for projects that start construction after the end of this year.
—Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 23 May 2025
However, that assumes subcomponents, like cameras, are still partly assembled outside the U.S.
To put that into context, the base model for iPhone 16 Pro Max costs $1,199 to buy outright, with $125.90 added in local taxes in Louisiana, for instance.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 22 May 2025
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.
—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
To reach the overall fitness standard, students must reach the fitness standard for all four subcomponents.
—Evan Gorelick, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
Currently testing reactor subcomponents; successful prototype in 2015 could lead to commercial reactor in 2020.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcomponent
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As an iconic component of downtown infrastructure, the skyway network cannot be separated from broader discussions about the revitalization of downtown.—
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Nacua was an essential component to that, reeling in a game-high 10 passes for 111 yards.—
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The Table of Contents is divided along the parts of a young body, with sections titled Heads Up!—
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Barry points to the central section of the pitch, on either side of the halfway line, to make his point.—
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That response was to a question specifically about inside linebacker Dre Greenlaw, who missed the Broncos’ final two regular-season games with a hamstring injury and was one of the only players not on the field during a brief portion of Friday’s workout open to reporters.—
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Credit card interest rates represent a significant portion of financial institutions’ revenue.—
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After Whoopi Goldberg's Finding Your Roots segment revealed that football player Tony Gonzalez is her distant cousin, the actress invited the former athlete to The View.—
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These ads showed images of tractors, mountains of blueberries and a man’s hands massaging a clump of dirt, each segment highlighting a different part of the industry.—
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Brandon Fried, executive director of the Airforwarders Association, which represents hundreds of air cargo companies, said flight reductions will worsen the disruption already being felt across the aviation sector as the federal government shutdown stretches on.—
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And the business travel sector serves the interests of many of the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations.—
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Yui's video kicked off with a dramatic display of zodiacal light, which formed as sunlight reflected off a cloud of interplanetary dust particles to form a column of light above the colorful arc of our Blue Marble.—
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The antenna that sends out the RF signal is made from zinc, and it is embedded into a cellulose particle, as per the release.—
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Doctors were reportedly unable to remove some of the bullet fragments from his face, and a bone near his eye was also broken.—
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People from the Kansas City area who boarded the ship are highlighted on posters hanging on the walls next to artifacts like fragments of a first-class curtain, a door handle and a White Star Line envelope.—
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But the fourth-down element has been in the spotlight.—
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At the same time, aging-in-place design elements are becoming more mainstream — and more aesthetically integrated.—
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“Subcomponent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcomponent. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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