subject matter

See also: subject-matter

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Noun

subject matter (countable and uncountable, plural subject matters)

  1. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
    • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎[1]:
      When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter.

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