entailing

present participle of entail

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Recent Examples of entailing The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had laid out a three-phase plan for Venezuela, entailing stabilization, recovery, and, ultimately, a political transition. Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 23 July 2026 Following his first meeting at the helm Wednesday, Warsh outlined the plan — a sprawling, ambitious endeavor entailing five task forces that will utilize resources and experts within the Fed and from the outside. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 21 June 2026 And in a separate joint paper, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Lithuania called on the EU to explore a new measure to limit over-reliance on a single country, possibly entailing new tariffs or quotas. Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 June 2026 If wanting to ascribe feelings to the nonhuman world is an anthropocentric crime, the opposite—failure to ascribe feelings to animals, or to respond creatively to plants—seems much worse, entailing an inert, clockwork universe of mechanistic automata, in which humans are the only conscious actors. Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026 FedEx will offer modified services, mostly entailing early pickups, and most offices will be open. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entailing
Verb
  • The fires in the Bordeaux wine-growing, forested and tourism-heavy region are among the blazes that have swept across pockets of southern Europe in recent weeks, including Spain and Greece.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • Certain medications, including blood thinners, might make tattooing unsafe.
    Rachel Brown Kirkland, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Ferguson said that the years of lawsuits and controversies involving the department have contributed to a lack of public trust.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
  • Coinbase, meanwhile, is struggling to find its footing after betting heavily on a strategy involving its in-house blockchain that has yet to pay off.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Semax, a peptide containing seven amino acids, has been studied for its potential effects on the central nervous system.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
  • In her hand is an unopened envelope from a DNA testing company, containing the answer to whether Max was ever really her father.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Throughout her career, Nicki Minaj has sent seven projects to the Billboard 200 ranking, the most important and all-encompassing albums tally in the United States.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Charli proposes a spree encompassing a handbag, shoes, jewelry and eventually a Jaeger-LeCoultre.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • That was part of his wider goal of sending endless waves of bomb-carrying drones and robots to hit Russian encampments in a bid to sharply reduce Ukraine’s casualties.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Then in April, one of the company’s ships was passing Puerto Rico between two other jobs while carrying an advanced underwater drone with the right sensors to find the plane.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026

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“Entailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entailing. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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