as in to involve
to have as part of a whole
a lavish wedding entails extensive planning and often staggering expense
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Recent Examples of entail
Many struggle with long-term IP management, which entails tracking patent renewals and responding to legal office actions.
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Hamas wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire's more difficult second phase, which would entail the release of the remaining hostages, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace.
—arkansasonline.com, 15 Mar. 2025
The problem is that all these approaches entail significant resources and, more important, require access to land, often in densely populated areas.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
In American foreign policy, smart power entails proactively preventing threats and challenges to U.S. interests and security.
—Matthew Clary, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Hamas wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire's more difficult second phase, which would entail the release of the remaining hostages, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace.
—arkansasonline.com, 15 Mar. 2025
The problem is that all these approaches entail significant resources and, more important, require access to land, often in densely populated areas.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
In American foreign policy, smart power entails proactively preventing threats and challenges to U.S. interests and security.
—Matthew Clary, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entail
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While the Primary Wave deal closed just weeks after her death, sources said she was involved in nearly every aspect of the deal’s negotiations.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration is trying to deport two other people involved in protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
21 Mar. 2025
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What To Know Tesla operates in several Middle Eastern countries already, including the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Jordan, and Qatar, but Saudi Arabia is the largest market in the Gulf region.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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To be fair, many of those — including emerging aces Tanner Bibee, Logan Gilbert, Mackenzie Gore and Paul Skenes along with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shota Imanaga, who started in their native Japan when the Dodgers and Cubs opened in Tokyo last week — are no-doubters.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The five-mile-long mountain ridge that encompasses Mount Yoshino is said to be covered by about 30,000 cherry trees—the oldest of which is thought to have been planted more than 1,300 years ago.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Mar. 2025
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Nearly half the population is Hindu, whose beliefs encompass respect toward animals.—
ByRefael Kubersky,
science.org,
20 Mar. 2025
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Firefighters have not yet contained some of the strongest blazes, although officials hoped that a sprinkling of rain on Thursday would aid their emergency efforts, the Times reports.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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The following contains spoilers for the Reacher Season 3 finale, now streaming on Prime Video.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Entail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entail. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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