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The strategy entails buying one call and selling another with a higher strike price but a similar expiration.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The plan entails a likely reduction of more than 10% of the group’s U.K. and Ireland workforce of around 30,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The Crucible and all that it entails chews up players, scars them.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Border Patrol agents are typically stationed at the border where their day-to-day work entails scooping up people who have crossed illegally.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

On the screen of her iPad, she plays a relatively primitive video game that entails identifying targets that at first appear in the middle of the screen but get farther out on the periphery.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel