as in involves
to have as part of a whole
a lavish wedding entails extensive planning and often staggering expense
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Recent Examples of entails
Here's what the position entails.
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Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
While patients with diabetes take doses that increase every four weeks, microdosing entails using a low-level dose that doesn’t go up.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Like the blind father, the country is desperately trying to overcome its past and disadvantages, in pursuit of a more beautiful future — but that pursuit almost necessarily entails a brittle form of pride, which leads to various injustices along the way.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
During summer, fall and spring, ice cream and gelato shops in New York City can draw a crowd, but winter usually entails a decline in sales.
—Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
On the wellness front, that entails supplements from Biocol Labs and Act + Acre.
—James Manso, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
And no matter who is playing the British agent or what his next story entails, the send off serves as a promise that there will always be a next adventure for one of pop culture’s greatest heroes.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Extended coverage entails putting money beyond the $250,000 into Live Oak’s Insured Cash Sweep account, which provides FDIC insurance up to $10 million.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
Since a lot of my travel — including this Europe trip — entails multiple travel days, lugging around two backpacks in a turtleshell style isn’t fun.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2025
Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
While patients with diabetes take doses that increase every four weeks, microdosing entails using a low-level dose that doesn’t go up.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Like the blind father, the country is desperately trying to overcome its past and disadvantages, in pursuit of a more beautiful future — but that pursuit almost necessarily entails a brittle form of pride, which leads to various injustices along the way.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
During summer, fall and spring, ice cream and gelato shops in New York City can draw a crowd, but winter usually entails a decline in sales.
—Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
On the wellness front, that entails supplements from Biocol Labs and Act + Acre.
—James Manso, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
And no matter who is playing the British agent or what his next story entails, the send off serves as a promise that there will always be a next adventure for one of pop culture’s greatest heroes.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Extended coverage entails putting money beyond the $250,000 into Live Oak’s Insured Cash Sweep account, which provides FDIC insurance up to $10 million.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
Since a lot of my travel — including this Europe trip — entails multiple travel days, lugging around two backpacks in a turtleshell style isn’t fun.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entails
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Reviewing commercial agreements involves extracting legal clauses, assessing risk, comparing versions and drafting summaries (a task far too nuanced and layered for a single prompt or monolithic LLM call).—
Gopikrishnan Anilkumar,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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In Belly’s case, making the Paris decision—let alone the decision of which brother to be with—involves critical-thinking skills and a sense of self, neither of which is a trivial quality.—
Greta Rainbow,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Army soldiers, even those in non-combat jobs or those who lack previous firearms experience, must pass a rifle marksmanship test that includes targets as far as 325 yards away after mere days of training.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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That includes one conference game.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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The transaction also encompasses a long-term commercial agreement for EchoStar’s Boost Mobile subscribers to access SpaceX’s Starlink direct-to-cell service.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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The collection of conditions — which includes obesity, ADHD, diabetes and depression — encompasses many of the 342 million people in the United States.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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The First 70 Years contains impeccable research and analysis, accompanied by fascinating photos of the sets, film crews, and casts.—
Michael Taube,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The system contains unverified reports of side effects, including from patients, doctors and pharmacists.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Entails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entails. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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