as in to involve
to have as part of a whole
a lavish wedding entails extensive planning and often staggering expense
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Recent Examples of entail
Prep Time Matters Designer Ariel Roberts loves making statements with both wallpaper and paint in her work, so she’s seen firsthand the process each entails.
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Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
The Mamba is the tallest ride at the park and entails an initial drop of 205 feet, according to the park’s website.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
This entails copying and pasting certain sections of a photograph, or groups of pixels, from one region of a photo to another.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
What does that actually entail?
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
The Mamba is the tallest ride at the park and entails an initial drop of 205 feet, according to the park’s website.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
This entails copying and pasting certain sections of a photograph, or groups of pixels, from one region of a photo to another.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
What does that actually entail?
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entail
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Thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon to protest federal immigration activity after agents were involved in two different shootings this week, one that left a woman dead in Minneapolis and another that wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Homeland Security officials said the pair attempted to run over immigration officers with their car and say both are involved with gang Tren de Aragua.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Molinaro’s visit will include a ride on the Blue Line and a roundtable with local officials and business leaders, according to Cagle.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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All programs — including athletics, community education and adult education — are cancelled Thursday and Friday.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Residents of Mountain Village, the European-style town that encompasses the Telluride ski resort, on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a 5% lift-ticket tax to help fund the construction, maintenance and operation of the iconic gondola that connects the mountain with the town of Telluride.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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So everything about that, which was also what was so indelible and so pleasurable about that, was also what the big challenge was, encompassing all that.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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Dominique could hardly contain himself in his seat.—
Mirin Fader,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Some fruit pits and seeds, like those in apples and pears, contain traces of cyanide, which is harmful to birds.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Entail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entail. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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