entailed

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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

Though he settled in New York, Church, a born outdoorsman, responded with enthusiasm to the hiking and camping so often entailed by the job of landscape painting.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

And that leaves open the possibility that if he did understand what they entailed, he would understand that precedent doesn’t actually allow them.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

From the outset, the company was a little vague about what the service actually entailed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 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