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Yanagihara’s characters are able to live this encompassment.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020

That’s an encompassment for the kids around here, where I’m from, stuff like that.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

And each day, too, she had seemed to draw farther away from him, as she rose steadily out of the limited 319 encompassment in which they dwelt.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

In both, the same aloofness of soul, the same indifference to the judgments of the world, the same courage, the same fatalism, the same encompassment by the shadow of the Most High.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

He waved one hand here and there, as though generalizing the whole luxurious encompassment.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett


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