ENTAILING Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

entailing

verb

present participle of entail

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 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

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Created in honor of Birds Georgia’s 100-year birthday, the Georgia Birding Trail is a network of locations picked based on accessibility, amenities and wildlife viewing potential, including habitats such as Murphey Candler Park and Reed Creek Park.

— Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 9 July 2026
Known as Citizenship by Investment, the program grants visa-free access to up to 150 countries, including Europe’s Schengen area and, in some cases, the United Kingdom.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026

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Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
But severe maternal morbidity, the near-misses involving hemorrhage, infection, organ failure, ICU admissions, PTSD, impacts Black women at much higher rates, and in many jurisdictions, including Washington, DC, morbidity is not tracked.

— Ashoka, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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Infected people experience symptoms from two days to two weeks after consuming food or drinking water containing the parasite.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
The post-credits scene begins in the mortuary where Will’s funeral was held, when an undertaker and her daughter walk by shelves of urns containing deceased people’s ashes that weren’t picked up by families.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of containing

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Europe needs a continent-wide security architecture encompassing NATO members both inside and outside the EU.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
An all encompassing space like Big Grove has filled a gap in town — a communal, family-friendly and casual-yet-upscale energy not matched by existing spaces.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

Definition of encompassing

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Now, mosquitoes carrying West Nile have been found in 10 cities, with the latest being Fullerton and Anaheim.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
The new frontier is cumulative stress, a running tally of how much strain your body is carrying from work, poor sleep, illness, travel, emotional load and exercise combined.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

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