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  • noun Plural form of subculture.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subculture.

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Examples

  • The incresing acceptance of certain subcultures to accept “my own personal reality” as something that may not be fact-based, but still somehow representative of a “general truth” that the subculture is founded upon.

    An Experiment for Fake Memoirs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Here, the 'climate of opinion' in subcultures producing terrorists seems to get less attention, or to be processed in more of a 'why do they hate us?' fashion.

    Is That Legal?: The Special Danger of Blaming Minority "Subcultures" 2006

  • Here, the 'climate of opinion' in subcultures producing terrorists seems to get less attention, or to be processed in more of a 'why do they hate us?' fashion.

    Is That Legal?: terrorism Archives 2006

  • Here, the 'climate of opinion' in subcultures producing terrorists seems to get less attention, or to be processed in more of a 'why do they hate us?' fashion.

    Is That Legal?: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • Yamamoto often drew upon easily identified work vestments traditional in Japanese subcultures of conformity.

    theartblog 2008

  • In between those two I have two documentaries that take a look at New York City subcultures, which is something I can rarely ever resist.

    17 Days, 21 Films: MIFF2010 Itinerary Glenn Dunks 2010

  • This was the decade of "identity politics" and the "culture wars," which revolved not merely around whether or not Congress gets to decide what art is, but whether or not our national culture -- both high and low -- included the "subcultures" of women, queers, people of color, and immigrants.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • This was the decade of "identity politics" and the "culture wars," which revolved not merely around whether or not Congress gets to decide what art is, but whether or not our national culture -- both high and low -- included the "subcultures" of women, queers, people of color, and immigrants.

    In Other News: Race Activists Now Have Superpowers 2007

  • The whole concept of "subcultures" when it comes to fiction is inaccurate, though, because contemporary literary fiction is about as sub- to a culture as it's possible to get without hitting the ocean floor.

    Short Stories, Long Tails 2005

  • The whole concept of "subcultures" when it comes to fiction is inaccurate, though, because contemporary literary fiction is about as sub- to a culture as it's possible to get without hitting the ocean floor.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

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