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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encompass.

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Examples

  • And my attitude was that a story on "Asian people" as a whole can only be a kind of a failure because the term encompasses such large groups of people who have different immigration histories, class backgrounds, and nationalities.

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • And my attitude was that a story on "Asian people" as a whole can only be a kind of a failure because the term encompasses such large groups of people who have different immigration histories, class backgrounds, and nationalities.

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • And my attitude was that a story on "Asian people" as a whole can only be a kind of a failure because the term encompasses such large groups of people who have different immigration histories, class backgrounds, and nationalities.

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • And my attitude was that a story on "Asian people" as a whole can only be a kind of a failure because the term encompasses such large groups of people who have different immigration histories, class backgrounds, and nationalities.

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • And my attitude was that a story on "Asian people" as a whole can only be a kind of a failure because the term encompasses such large groups of people who have different immigration histories, class backgrounds, and nationalities.

    Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang Silpa Kovvali 2011

  • Now the word encompasses all my wonderful ladies at the cookie party.

    The Christmas Cookie Cookbook Ann Pearlman 2010

  • More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

    Archive 2009-09-01 amy 2009

  • More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

    zinesters do it for love! - opinion based cross stitch/embroidery amy 2009

  • The term encompasses all people using Clovis technology, first discovered in Clovis, N.M. The archaeologists at Gault are studying all the different patterns of human activity, which span many thousands of years, and comparing the data to other sites all over the continent to better understand the Clovis culture as a whole.

    The Gault Site Jan 2009

  • The term encompasses a wide range of tactics designed to limit voter participation.

    Baratunde Thurston: Announcing The Launch Of The Voter Suppression Wiki -- Learn, Report, Act 2008

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