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encompass

[en-kuhm-puhs] / ɛnˈkʌm pəs /




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Akamai and Anthropic also have the option to expand the agreement to encompass another $9 billion of revenue, an option which JPMorgan analysts say follows “a path of low resistance” to be exercised.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The board agreed to extend the review by one year at a time back to 2015, which would encompass up to 4,500 further cases and take an estimated five years to complete.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Drawing upon the 2021 Sony Classical reissue of the contralto’s discography for RCA Victor, he identifies her best recordings, which encompass works by Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Schubert, as well as spirituals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Evacuation warnings were issued in the area as the Palos fire grew to encompass 20 acres by about 4:15 p.m., according to Fire Department spokesperson Keith Navarre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

His mind tried to grasp and encompass as much of her life as it could, tried to understand and weigh it in relation to his own, as his hand rested on her shoulder.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Year: 2013 Compiled by: Slate Staff Of note: Per the subheading, this encompasses “almost-forgotten moments” from recent history “that would have ‘won the Internet’ if they happened today.”

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The term technically encompasses a broad category of products that includes FDA-approved drugs—ranging from insulin to Ozempic—but it has become shorthand for substances people are injecting that haven’t undergone approval from the FDA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Topix is a broader index including domestic stocks, while the Nikkei encompasses only the top 225 companies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Supernaw, whose council district encompasses the $65-million project, had reservations about the price tag before ultimately supporting it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"It encompasses all that is made, unmade, and yet to be made."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

"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

His long, productive career encompassed more than six decades, in each of which his live performances and recordings continually attested to his preeminence as one of jazz history’s most vital, innovative and influential artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The empire encompassed every imaginable type of terrain, from the rainforest of upper Amazonia to the deserts of the Peruvian coast and the twenty- thousand-foot peaks of the Andes between.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Edward Albee’s “The Play About the Baby,” which he saw when he was a freshman at NYU, was another work that showed him just how elastic and encompassing drama can be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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

The 1858 oil painting presents a panoramic view of the Ecuadorian Andes encompassing the snow-capped volcanic peak at the top, blue glaciated ice below, and towering palm trees lower still.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains.

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




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