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
The film encapsulates the plight of Iranians who have endured incarceration, interrogation, and torture at the hands of the Islamic Republic.
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
Typically when preparing for a role, Apostolides, as a guitarist, picks a song that encapsulates a character's essence.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
In 2023, the Swedish company Maurten introduced a formulation that encapsulates the baking soda into minitablets suspended in a special hydrogel.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
In those early days, Zelensky’s uncanny capacity for survival and humor encapsulated the defiant mood of the country.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
Typically when preparing for a role, Apostolides, as a guitarist, picks a song that encapsulates a character's essence.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
In 2023, the Swedish company Maurten introduced a formulation that encapsulates the baking soda into minitablets suspended in a special hydrogel.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
In those early days, Zelensky’s uncanny capacity for survival and humor encapsulated the defiant mood of the country.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
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Final thoughts If nothing else, Friday’s roundtable summarized the headwinds college sports are confronting and the various self-interests, egos and competing voices that make solutions so hard to come by.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Amazon Connect Health can generate notes from live conversations between doctors and patients; add billing, symptom and procedure codes; and summarize health data from existing medical records.—
Matt Day,
Bloomberg,
5 Mar. 2026
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Organizers have yet to outline departure arrangements for the players, who traveled to Australia only days before the US-Israeli war against Iran erupted.—
Swati Pandey,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Arcadis report finds an impenetrable surface cover outlined in the next option, Alternative 5, to be unfeasible due to the site’s topography and other floodplain issues.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Encapsulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encapsulate. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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