encapsulate

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  1. transitive verb To encase in or as if in a capsule.
  2. transitive verb To express in a brief summary; epitomize: headlines that encapsulate the news.
  3. intransitive verb To become encapsulated.

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  • Read both, encapsulate, and take to the air with a thirty-second blurb about whatever scandal was brewing at the White House. —  ConsenttoKill
  • You can still open the timeline, write a couple lines of code and be off to the races without knowing how to encapsulate or what polymorphism is. —  fullasagoog.com full roast blend
  • Sadly those days are gone, and the Blonde and I this week found ourselves in two eateries that encapsulate everything that has perhaps gone wrong in the professional British kitchen. —  politicalbetting.com
  • Chris Fujiwara in the Boston Phoenix: "It's as if he wanted to encapsulate, in a series of small films that flew far beneath the radar of the serious cultural commentators of their day, all the potential of the Western as a tragic and elegiac discourse on the absurdity and brevity of life." —  GreenCine Daily
  • I think the answer to who "wins" in divorce is "it depends" (that phrase can actually encapsulate everything I learned in law school). —  NYT > Home Page
 

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/ɛnˈkæpsjuleɪt/
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