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 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
  1. including
  2. involving
  3. containing
  4. encompassing
  5. carrying
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  • Under the current plan, the building would include 696 rental apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units; three levels of amenities, including two swimming pools; 7,400 square feet of commercial space; and 696 parking spaces.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In a statement, district officials stated the cancellation was made considering sensitive themes in the musical, including an abusive relationship and romantic storylines, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of including
Verb
  • The collision came just nine months after another deadly crash involving high-speed trains operated by the same two companies in southern Spain in January.
    — JOSEPH WILSON, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Savannah River National Laboratory conducts research involving nuclear materials, environmental management, energy technologies, and national security.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of involving
Verb
  • Chocolate in all forms — especially dark or baking chocolate — can be very dangerous for both cats and dogs, and sugar-free candies containing the sugar substitute xylitol can cause serious problems in pets.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Cyber recovery used to encompass containing damage and restoring operations to the last clean state.
    — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of containing
Verb
  • As of last week, the NCAA reported some 200 lawsuits filed since its approval of the new eligibility model in June, encompassing roughly 850 plaintiffs in a variety of sports.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The study’s authors stopped short of claiming the coinciding diversification of Cretaceous plants and oviraptorosaurs (the larger dinosaur group encompassing caenagnathidae) are directly related.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of encompassing
Verb
  • Any legislators carrying such a bill would need to convince their colleagues in multiple parts of the state where Hollywood has less sway of the wisdom of such a move.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Firearms cannot be brought into polling places located inside private property that forbids them, a school, a courthouse or any other location where Pennsylvania law prohibits carrying firearms.
    — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of carrying

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