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entail

[en-teyl, en-teyl, en-teyl] / ɛnˈteɪl, ɛnˈteɪl, ˈɛn teɪl /


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Gensler’s strategy can entail making these often blank-faced barns for computer servers look more organic to the local surroundings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

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

Owning shorter-term bonds, which entail less risk, is probably going to be the more sensible investment.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

While she did, Mrs. Harrison kept up a constant stream of chatter, giving Ophie endless reminders about what the day would entail.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

But Juda said the government remained firmly committed to its target of 8.0 percent GDP growth by 2029, even though this entails high public spending at a time of dwindling resources.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

On the screen of her iPad, she plays a relatively primitive video game that entails identifying targets that at first appear in the middle of the screen but get farther out on the periphery.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

But I didn’t buy the behavioral shifts some of these turns entailed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

That entailed frequent calls to a large language model.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

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

"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

To have gone to both and then home would have entailed a sixty-mile horseback ride.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

He noted that the Machinists’ work, physically tiring and often entailing exposure to toxic chemicals, takes a toll.

From Seattle Times Nov. 6, 2023

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

Often presenting well after the initial infection, post-acute infection syndrome manifests as a complex and variable disorder, typically entailing severe fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, confused sensory perception, and neurocognitive abnormalities.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2023

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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