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inclusionary

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Recent Examples of inclusionary However, the Netherland Place home was bound by Denver’s inclusionary housing ordinance, which sets affordability covenants on some homes. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026 In addition to approving new services fees on May 19, the City Council unanimously approved a temporary inclusionary housing in-lieu fee. — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026 The admissions process alone is expensive and often more exclusionary than inclusionary. — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026 The developers plan to create 661 apartments, 165 of them affordable, or 25 percent, as required by mandatory inclusionary zoning. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2026 Now, as the city reevaluates its efforts, an inclusionary zoning ordinance might return for consideration. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026 Along with streamlining processes for 100% affordable projects, inclusionary housing compliance now includes offering 15% of units at 60-110% of the area median income. — Devan Patel, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026 The Orgy Dome is a safe, inclusionary, and exploratory environment. — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2025

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Adjective

China’s grain output reached a record 715 million tons in 2025, while national plans call for increasing comprehensive grain production capacity to about 725 million tons by 2030.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
In May, Raman announced a comprehensive Palisades recovery plan that touched on many of the demands fire survivors had been voicing for more than a year.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of comprehensive

Adjective

Their completion will engender an improvement in takings across the board; Barca expect Espai Barca, the overarching project which takes in the Camp Nou extension and improvement, will generate an additional €250m in annual revenues once finished.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their jackets.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of overarching

Adjective

One of the Roundhouse’s biggest brags is an extensive liquor collection, highlighting spirits produced in New York State.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
Cutting overseas dependency China possesses extensive rubidium and cesium reserves locked inside specialty lithium ores and salt-lake brines.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of extensive

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First, though, Cline builds up to a description of a long-ago incident between the two boys that feels out of place in a novel about a more pervasive, murky sense of failure.

— Emma Alpern, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
At Joontos, the chefs concoct dishes such as the batata harra, which recalls patatas bravas with black lime—a pervasive, earthy-bitter top note in Saudi cuisine.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of pervasive

Adjective

There has been a widespread opinion that football has become too rigid and regimented in recent seasons, but Luis Enrique’s PSG are one of the few antidotes to that.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Millions of people live in or near bear habitat across the Rockies, where widespread drought has reduced supplies of nuts, berries and plants that bears eat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of widespread

Adjective

Sunderland, of course, spent heavily last season after coming up from the Championship, and there is a broad consensus that promoted teams need to do so to quickly bring their squads up to scratch.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The approach fits the US military’s broader effort to increase the availability of hypersonic flight-test infrastructure.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of broad

Adjective

This unexpected ending shifts the narrative from military triumph to spiritually discerning and expressing God’s all-embracing love.

— Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
Then as now, his view of music was an all-embracing one that knew no stylistic boundaries.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024

Definition of all-embracing

Adjective

OpenAI’s recent proof, for instance, has yet to receive verification from the wider mathematical community.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2026
Washington did grow, and for years tourists and residents flocked to the Capitol’s wide terrace overlooking the National Mall, especially at sunset.

— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026

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