as in summary
a short statement of the main points
didn't have time to read the full news article, just the encapsulation on the second page
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Recent Examples of encapsulation
Saturday’s game was the perfect encapsulation of why that’s been the case thus far.
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Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
The image of your mother being too sleepy to enjoy the spoils of her own hard work—or to even be fully present as her children enjoyed those spoils—struck me as such a succinct encapsulation of her sacrifice and her heroism, as well as their drawbacks.
—G'ra Asim
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
These standards encompass digital signatures for authentication and key-encapsulation mechanisms for secure communication channels.
—Antonio Sanchez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
The image of your mother being too sleepy to enjoy the spoils of her own hard work—or to even be fully present as her children enjoyed those spoils—struck me as such a succinct encapsulation of her sacrifice and her heroism, as well as their drawbacks.
—G'ra Asim
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
These standards encompass digital signatures for authentication and key-encapsulation mechanisms for secure communication channels.
—Antonio Sanchez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encapsulation
Noun
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As well as showing Ryland Grace pre- (no beard) and post- (lots of beard) spaceflight, this first teaser provides a thorough summary of the movie's premise for anyone yet to read Weir's novel.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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The story by outlines how Citic Telecom CPC company, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates three Baltic Sea cables that carry information from private individuals, companies, and authorities.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Instead, there’s just a drawing, an outline of the back of the heads of two young women in hoodies.—
Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Encapsulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encapsulation. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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