encompass
Example Sentences
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The government’s November retail sales report, which encompasses the busy Thanksgiving weekend, typically provides a key reading on the health of holiday spending.
Or the government could ask the National Archives to pursue the return of all “presidential records,” which would encompass classified documents.
It feels kind of sprawling and encompassing of the Black diaspora experience.
From Los Angeles Times
In Leavitt’s usage, “transparency” has become a form of Orwellian “doublespeak,” a word or phrase which through the process of “doublethink” had come to encompass its exact opposite meaning.
From Salon
It said it had secured a 30% discount on what it would have paid under its current trade agreement with the EU, which encompasses many other industries.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
