entailed

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From the outset, the company was a little vague about what the service actually entailed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 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

Filings also note a $1 million payment to Weiss that entailed compensation for family members and payments to his personal American Express card, and a $205,500 disbursement to Stitsky “including salary to a fictitious person.”

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Given all the conflicts that owning Warner Bros. would have entailed, every director, producer and actor in Hollywood would have been screaming “anticompetitive” anytime Netflix made a decision they didn’t like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“No wonder she was ill, the child was the wrong way round and she had to have an operation which entailed turning the child with forceps.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman