encompass

Example Sentences

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This one is the “Santa Claus rally,” and it encompasses the last five trading days of one year and the first two trading days of the next.

From MarketWatch

The government’s November retail sales report, which encompasses the busy Thanksgiving weekend, typically provides a key reading on the health of holiday spending.

From The Wall Street Journal

Or the government could ask the National Archives to pursue the return of all “presidential records,” which would encompass classified documents.

From The Wall Street Journal

It feels kind of sprawling and encompassing of the Black diaspora experience.

From Los Angeles Times

In Leavitt’s usage, “transparency” has become a form of Orwellian “doublespeak,” a word or phrase which through the process of “doublethink” had come to encompass its exact opposite meaning.

From Salon