encompass
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The failures encompass everything from regulation and employment practices to the way the NHS and government struggle to learn the lessons of the past.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Agents and Infra segment will encompass apps and agents, which include Microsoft 365 and GitHub, the multi-model system grounded in rich-enterprise context, and global-scale Azure infrastructure, Microsoft said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A template was then set up for other Instagrammers to take advantage, going on to encompass buzzy topics like East Asian rappers, the use of A.I. in the insurance industry, and the Himalayas.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
A wildfire in Big Sur has burned 2,000 acres, spurred evacuations that encompass the Nepenthe restaurant and the Alila Ventana resort, and closed state parks in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Loyally, it tried to encompass the concept and half a dozen coils burnt out.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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The authenticity of the production encompasses the music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
TD Cowen’s Craig Hutchison notes that the district now encompasses about 60,000 hectares, of which San Pietro makes up about 27%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The actor paid a reported $15 million for the property, which encompasses a staggering 5,400 acres and has been described as one of the world’s largest privately owned islands.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Archosaurs, in turn, are the lineage that encompasses two of the best-known groups of terrestrial vertebrates: crocodiles and dinosaurs, including birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
New Guinea, though it accounts for only a small fraction of the world’s land area, encompasses a disproportionate fraction of its human diversity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The image also encompassed several French overseas territories, such as Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Newsom last year signed a similar bill that created a category for Middle East and North African individuals separate from the “white” designation that had previously encompassed those ethnicities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry," it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The full range of Jayhawks sounds are encompassed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The hedgerow encompassed the entire area, with a single arched entryway off to one side.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Edward Albee’s “The Play About the Baby,” which he saw when he was a freshman at NYU, was another work that showed him just how elastic and encompassing drama can be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The protected area is enormous, encompassing everything we could see through our binoculars from there.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Isak played 22 games encompassing 1,033 minutes, scoring four goals at a rate of one every 258 minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dubbed "a couturier of the sacred" by Vogue magazine, Sorcinelli has seen his business expand over the years, now encompassing perfumes and body products for the general public.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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