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Ignore how free speech does not entail freedom from consequences.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is unclear what the disciplinary procedures against Foucher entail or how long they will last.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
She didn’t elaborate on what the upgrades would entail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank says there is "relatively little detail" about what Reform's plan entails.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Another ruse is called ghost booking, which entails an employee booking conference rooms or workstations online to suggest they are in the office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
Because, beyond the military disadvantage losing a Mockingjay entails, I am broken.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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On Friday, the court's judges said the 2024 drone operation "entailed the use of South Korea's military capabilities for private purposes".
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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
Though he settled in New York, Church, a born outdoorsman, responded with enthusiasm to the hiking and camping so often entailed by the job of landscape painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
From the outset, the company was a little vague about what the service actually entailed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
I knew it was the call to prayer, but I didn’t know what it entailed.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
Xiong Lee’s path to shamanism has been arduous, entailing rigorous training with a shaman mentor to learn how to communicate with the spirit world.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 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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