as in including
to have as part of a whole
a lavish wedding entails extensive planning and often staggering expense
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Recent Examples of entailing
FedEx will offer modified services, mostly entailing early pickups, and most offices will be open.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Larger businesses, entailing companies with 50 or more employees, actually reported a net gain of 90,000 workers.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Larger businesses, entailing companies with 50 or more employees, actually reported a net gain of 90,000 workers.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entailing
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However, the opening bid is set at $1 million, and the auction house estimates that the historic gold nugget will realize between $3 million and $7 million, not including the buyer’s premium.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
8 May 2026
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Those pullbacks, in turn, prompted legislation in several states, including Minnesota, to stop drug manufacturers from restricting their 340B discounts.—
Dené K. Dryden,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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The issue of antisemitism is also roiling the Green Party, which has passed Labour in the polls, but is now facing numerous scandals involving its candidates posting antisemitic content.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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But as more flyers turn to booze to soothe their nerves, the number of aggressive incidents on planes involving passengers has crept up.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
Verb
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But the most common proxies, including tree rings, pollen and ice cores containing pockets of ancient air, have already been well studied.—
Hannah Richter,
Scientific American,
7 May 2026
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Suitcases are discovered, containing plot devices.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
7 May 2026
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The futuristic-looking MBUX Hyperscreen is the dominant interior feature, encompassing the entire dashboard.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
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The pool-scape is the most quintessentially Palm Springs area of the home, lined with loungers under the meringue yellow umbrellas and encompassing a hot tub that lights up for night-time swims.—
Kristine Hansen,
Architectural Digest,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Others may use hollow pipes, tubes, window ledges or even sliding door tracks (a favorite site for the grass-carrying wasp).—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Lerner’s critical reputation is also through the roof, each new book carrying the weight of potentially being a moment of great artistic import.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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“Entailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entailing. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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