entailed

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"But I would tell them this, they haven't a clue what this investigation has entailed," he told the Tucson Sentinel newspaper this week.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Filings also note a $1 million payment to Weiss that entailed compensation for family members and payments to his personal American Express card, and a $205,500 disbursement to Stitsky “including salary to a fictitious person.”

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Given all the conflicts that owning Warner Bros. would have entailed, every director, producer and actor in Hollywood would have been screaming “anticompetitive” anytime Netflix made a decision they didn’t like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

And while we’ve never really had the full gory details and what that’s entailed, it’s obviously been a subject of informed speculation.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 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