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encompass

[en-kuhm-puhs] / ɛnˈkʌm pəs /




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Mr. Davies’s formidable command of his subject is also the book’s weakness: His ambition to encompass so much science sometimes overwhelms the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Stern says people will still be able to check multiple racial and ethnic identification boxes on forms to encompass all the ways they identify.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

The case, which began as a coordinated, bipartisan effort involving attorneys general from 29 states, eventually expanded to encompass 47, as well as the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Corporate responsibility could encompass so much more than making the stock market rise.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

They weren’t even technically dinos, as if the creatures were so huge and ridiculous they needed their own entire type of monstrosity to encompass them.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Zeta-Jones said she had been looking forward to the opportunity to explore a female-driven plot that "encompasses empowerment, identity and redemption".

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The authenticity of the production encompasses the music.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The sprawling retreat encompasses hundreds of acres and features five main residences, along with dozens of private beaches, an outdoor theater, a gym and tennis courts.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Accessible via a small door to the right of the building’s famous front steps, the new attraction encompasses only a third of the existing undercroft, suspended within the larger surrounding space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

New Guinea, though it accounts for only a small fraction of the world’s land area, encompasses a disproportionate fraction of its human diversity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry," it said.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

That district had been Tennessee's 9th, which encompassed Memphis and was reliably won by Democrats.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

The area encompassed by the geofence can be larger than several football fields.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

But it also offered the audience a chance to look back on a career that’s encompassed virtually every major shift in pop music over the last two decades.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

Some zones were so large that they encompassed several planets, while others covered only a few kilometers on the surface of a single world.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The protected area is enormous, encompassing everything we could see through our binoculars from there.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

The weather service has issued coastal flood and high surf advisories encompassing Santa Catalina and Santa Barbara islands, Malibu, Los Angeles and Ventura County.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Isak played 22 games encompassing 1,033 minutes, scoring four goals at a rate of one every 258 minutes.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

It estimates that its surplus on the “current account”—a trade measure encompassing goods, services and investment income—is headed to 1% of global GDP, a share no country has achieved in postwar history.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes




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