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They are also quieter than portable units, but they do entail larger upfront costs and need to be installed by a professional tradesperson.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Reforming the historic structure of multimember agencies will entail trade-offs but is worth considering as this new landscape takes shape.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
The pipeline proposal is now subject to a federal review to determine whether it qualifies as a nation-building project, which would entail an accelerated approval process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
When the trade unwinds, it will entail the opposite of what’s been happening — the selling of individual-stock volatility and the buying of index volatility, and a likely sharp rise in correlations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
“Wait! What does helping entail? Are you going to possess Anya?”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Only the second part of the Trump plan, involving active U.S. protection for friendly vessels, entails risky operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The economists said that in their base case, a strong event entails losses of between $3 trillion and $5 trillion across five years, or about 2.7% to 3.2% of global gross domestic product.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
It entails using both animals and machines to create fire breaks — a controversial solution in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
“You understand what my occupation entails, don’t you?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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In the model, the “availability” phase entailed contact and small-scale movements across the frontier, with trading relationships and marriage alliances, for example, forming gradually.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
For Morris, stepping into the shoes of a Black journalist working during the Great Depression and in a still segregated reality entailed meaningful research.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Both these jobs entailed prolonged, ego-deflating battles; both ended in professional debacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
"But I would tell them this, they haven't a clue what this investigation has entailed," he told the Tucson Sentinel newspaper this week.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
However, this option, quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling, entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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In recent years, a couple of local districts have rolled out pilot programs entailing the release of sterile male mosquitoes to drive the population down, a relatively new approach to tackling these mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
So, the fuel needs a larger percentage of this isotope, entailing higher uranium-235 enrichment than the 4 percent enriched LEU typically used in nuclear power plants.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
Sardinia has restaurants all over the island referred to as "agriturismo," which is where local farms offer up a dining experience typically entailing a set menu consisting of only ingredients from the property.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023
In the same town, a listing for a cook at an American-fare restaurant advertised a position entailing food prep, baking and line cooking.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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