ENCAPSULATE Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

encapsulate

verb

in-ˈkap-sə-ˌlāt

as in to summarize

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) can you encapsulate the speech in about a paragraph?

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Recent Examples of encapsulate Saturday’s final score, 9-0 in the visitor’s favor, only partially encapsulates the degree to which New York (5-4) outplayed San Francisco (3-6) in front of a packed house that had more reasons to groan than reasons to cheer. —

Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026 The viability tests on spores encapsulated in perlite indicated that virtually all spores were alive. —

Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026 When Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico had each of her players bring in a quote that resonates with them, sophomore guard Olivia Olson provided one that truly encapsulates the Wolverines heading into the only women's NCAA Tournament regional final matching the top two seeds. —

CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026 In that sense, the end of San Antonio’s playoff-clinching victory over Phoenix on Thursday night encapsulated the last six years. —

Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for encapsulate

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Some early testers have used Skills to quickly enter prompts to calculate protein macros in a recipe, generate side-by-side comparisons across multiple tabs while shopping, and summarize lengthy documents, Google adds.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2026
Instead of asking students to define terms or summarize a concept when Wikipedia is sitting right there, the advice was to give them higher-level tasks—to evaluate different solutions to a problem or reflect on how that concept has come up in their own lives.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026