encompassing

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Her death marks the end of an era in Bollywood music - with her career spanning more than eight decades and encompassing more than 12,000 songs.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Bento is a co-author of a pre-print paper analyzing the recent drive in cases across the country, analyzing a database of 45 states encompassing over 50,000 schools in 3,000 counties.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Retail sales of new-energy vehicles, a category encompassing EVs and hybrid cars, fell 32% to 464,000 units in February from a year earlier, the data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The evacuation order was unprecedented in scale, encompassing a 6-square-mile, densely populated residential area with hundreds of thousands of people.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride