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
  • In July, OpenAI said its models were responsible for a cyber incident on another company, while Anthropic’s Claude models were also responsible for cybersecurity incidents, including in one case where Mythos created fake identities to fool humans.
    Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Mainly based in Romania since 2017, the pair has been under investigation since December 2022 in that country for allegations including human trafficking.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Folsom police said complaints involving the devices have risen sharply, particularly those involving juveniles on roads, in parks and on bike paths.
    Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In Mexico, a recent wave of attacks involving drones equipped with explosives put authorities on alert.
    Sol Amaya, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The task of containing Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak would have been herculean in any circumstance.
    Amesh Adalja, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
  • A little over a year ago, in August 2025, Aarons submitted the brief containing fake testimony and other errors.
    Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The mathematical universe is boundless and heterogeneous, encompassing, over here, truths about numbers and equations; there, the logic of shapes and spaces; and over there, the study of change and probability.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Also this month, the brand made its official foray into skin care with the release of the antiaging Ever Youth line encompassing a peptides cream, serum, eye serum and mask.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Judge returned to the Yankees’ lineup Tuesday night carrying an astonishing 177 OPS+ in his career.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Of the new vulnerabilities, 112 of them are rated critical, with the remainder carrying the important designation.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Entailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entailing. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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