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[en-tayl, en-tayl, en-tayl] / ɛnˈteɪl, ɛnˈteɪl, ˈɛn teɪl /


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South Korea’s presidential office has threatened to take further action, though it hasn’t specified what that could entail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In a newsy weekend on the AI front, CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI won’t target an initial public offering this year and noted that making AI safer will entail “significant costs.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Omishakin said it is too soon to say how much California will invest in the effort, or how many chargers it will ultimately entail, although the number is probably in the hundreds if not higher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

It is unclear what the disciplinary procedures against Foucher entail or how long they will last.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

In Virginia, however, laws abolishing primogeniture and entail had been passed during the Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“Restricting exports is indeed a lever China can pull anytime, but it still entails economic costs,” said Tom Reed, head of oil market analysis at Argus Media, a price reporting agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Another ruse is called ghost booking, which entails an employee booking conference rooms or workstations online to suggest they are in the office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Parents and children now face an increased wait for these results, with all the anxiety this entails, through no fault of their own," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Back at work, Mr. Kreuk has actual work for me, the kind my official job entails.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

It entailed careful removal of the stone flooring to reveal the mechanicals beneath.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

That entailed frequent calls to a large language model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

On Friday, the court's judges said the 2024 drone operation "entailed the use of South Korea's military capabilities for private purposes".

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

For Morris, stepping into the shoes of a Black journalist working during the Great Depression and in a still segregated reality entailed meaningful research.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

“No wonder she was ill, the child was the wrong way round and she had to have an operation which entailed turning the child with forceps.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

In recent years, a couple of local districts have rolled out pilot programs entailing the release of sterile male mosquitoes to drive the population down, a relatively new approach to tackling these mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Xiong Lee’s path to shamanism has been arduous, entailing rigorous training with a shaman mentor to learn how to communicate with the spirit world.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

So, the fuel needs a larger percentage of this isotope, entailing higher uranium-235 enrichment than the 4 percent enriched LEU typically used in nuclear power plants.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023

Action taken: In May, Casino started court-backed talks with creditors; in June, it asked interested parties to table offers entailing at least 900 million euros of new money to fund a relaunch.

From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2023

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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