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included

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past tense of include

as in contained

to have as part of a whole the college application included some thought-provoking essay questions

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as in housed

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers that inextinguishable spark of liberty that is included within every human being

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Recent Examples of included Dak Prescott then orchestrated an 11-play, 74-yard drive that included a fourth down conversion and capped it with the throw to Lamb to give the Cowboys the victory. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 South Korean local media further reported that the oil recovery project was not included in the agreements reached between Seoul and Washington, citing the country’s industry ministry. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026 Beyond Williams, other notable show attendees included Uma Thurman, Dwyane Wade, Lily Rowland, Chase Hudson and Taylor Zakhar Perez, among others. — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026 The World Economic Forum included the concept among its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026 The Dawson’s Creek reunion also included Mary-Margaret Humes, who played Dawson’s (Van Der Beek) mom on the show. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026 His other storyboard credits included Twister (1989), The Addams Family (1991), Nadja (1994), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), The Big Bang (2010), Warcraft (2016) and Fool’s Paradise (2023). — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026 And members of these new churches were mostly not the black-dressed, hypocritical, sour-faced, monocultural figures favored by popular narrative, but often included colorful figures who were sometimes surprisingly modern in their desires. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 John Mateer, once among the Heisman Trophy favorites, was harassed into a 25-of-34 passing day that included an interception and two fumbles that led to 14 Georgia points. — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026

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Becerra said that plan contained loopholes that would amount to major tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Dry cat food contained roughly three times more lead than wet or air-dried products.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of contained

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Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Palisades originally housed an 805-megawatt reactor, which is now in the final technical stages of restarting.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

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Polling from early 2003 showed that more than two-thirds of Americans falsely believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and a majority believed Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Cautious enthusiasm for radio signal detection Scientists who were not involved with the new research urged caution when interpreting the findings.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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In home gardens, small orchards, and organic operations, individual developing apples can be enclosed in protective bags that prevent female flies from reaching the fruit and laying eggs.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
Samson says the wings, tail and propeller are now fully enclosed inside the vehicle during driving mode.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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Since Guadagnino’s first feature in 1999, The Protagonists, a mockumentary starring Tilda Swinton as a filmmaker re-creating a real-life murder in London, his work has encompassed a variety of plots, tones, and textures.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
This overarching label encompassed Anabaptists, Baptists, Brownists, Levelers, Antinomians, Presbyterians, Ranters and many of the highly individual prophets and seers of 1640s Britain.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of encompassed

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That lesson will not stay confined to tolling ships or claiming seabeds.

— Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
The agreement’s political framework has been overtaken by events, and Ethiopia’s conflicts are no longer confined to the relationship between Addis Ababa and Mekelle.

— Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

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