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


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The campaign will also entail a billboard for the first time since CH Distillery took over.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Reforming the historic structure of multimember agencies will entail trade-offs but is worth considering as this new landscape takes shape.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

Such claims also require medical reports and paper trails and may entail an uphill struggle to prove malicious intent.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

Essentially, such an economy would entail getting people and cargo to the moon and Mars, something that would need to be a regular occurrence for a true economy to develop around it.

From BBC Jun. 12, 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

That investigation also entails examining the work of several individual firms involved in construction, including MetroLoft, Gace and Domani, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

The economists said that in their base case, a strong event entails losses of between $3 trillion and $5 trillion across five years, or about 2.7% to 3.2% of global gross domestic product.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

A call spread strategy, which entails buying a call and selling another with a higher strike price but the same expiration, is one way to manage SpaceX’s high options prices.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Because, beyond the military disadvantage losing a Mockingjay entails, I am broken.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

But I didn’t buy the behavioral shifts some of these turns entailed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

In the model, the “availability” phase entailed contact and small-scale movements across the frontier, with trading relationships and marriage alliances, for example, forming gradually.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

The Baltic country spends 5% of its GDP on national defence, Silina noted, which she said entailed a "much higher level of responsibility toward society... that requires clear results".

From BBC May 14, 2026

I had been persuaded that she and I were friends, and though I knew little as yet about what friendship entailed, I felt that surely a friend would wish to say farewell.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

Sardinia has restaurants all over the island referred to as "agriturismo," which is where local farms offer up a dining experience typically entailing a set menu consisting of only ingredients from the property.

From Salon Oct. 1, 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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