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encompassing

adjective as in including

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While the group started in hip-hop, their music encompassed different genres, Herman said, and incorporated a vision for the world to be a better place.

For the aspens are alive—they are, in the case of Kebler Pass, a vast encompassing life.

The list of recommendations that can be auto-applied is lengthy — encompassing everything from ads and extensions, bids, keywords and targeting, repairs and new features.

Metzger wouldn’t have had a chance in the Republican primary for the 43rd District, which encompassed southern Orange County, Imperial County, and a big chunk of North County from Oceanside and Carlsbad to Escondido and Valley Center.

Methodist also expanded its charity care policy to encompass more than 50% of area residents and raised the pay of its lowest-paid employees.

Not literally, but that was the impression I got; the hug was all-encompassing compassion, forgiveness and acceptance.

Heroin users describe the high as a feeling of all-encompassing well being.

Instead, he prefers to avoid that all-encompassing, data-friendly approach and go from the gut.

And that really encapsulates the pure spirit of all Icelanders: an all-encompassing passion that permeates everything they do.

Don meets Joy on a California business trip in Season 2, and they embark on an extremely brief, sunny, all-encompassing affair.

Many a village was recognizable from the encompassing waste only by the sign-board stuck in a mound announcing its name.

The Church might have to resist unto blood in striving against the encompassing sin.

Down he sank, slowly and gradually, till he was up to his waist in the relentless and encompassing sands.

For already the great silence of the darkness beyond was flowing out to Isaacson, was encompassing him about.

Between the two walls is a ditch, as likewise is another encompassing the outermost wall.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to encompassing, such as: enveloping, encircling, surrounding, ambient, and circumferential.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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