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encompassed



ADJECTIVE
enclosed
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
surrounded
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The deal encompassed a $1-billion investment by Disney in OpenAI.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The judge also found that executive orders issued by Trump had relied on a definition of antisemitism that encompassed First Amendment-protected speech — the same definition recommended by the Massachusetts Commission.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Although the RSF's main combat units were increasingly professionalised, it also encompassed a coalition of irregular old-style ethnic militia.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

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




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