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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of entail.

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Examples

  • By the annexation obligations entailed by the annexation, and if in my opinion, and in the opinion of many on this side of the House, wrong was done by the annexation itself, _that would not warrant us in doing fresh, distinct, and separate wrong by a disregard of the obligation which that annexation entailed_.

    The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896

  • But now, with the discovery of Sally Buckland’s body in the master bedroom closet, the house had become a crime scene, its warm domesticity destroyed by everything the term entailed.

    Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010

  • In the sense that any movement which involves taking part in group action of any sort, even entirely voluntarily and with no particular obligation entailed, is "Evangelical".

    A quasi-religious movement 2007

  • In the sense that any movement which involves taking part in group action of any sort, even entirely voluntarily and with no particular obligation entailed, is "Evangelical".

    A quasi-religious movement 2007

  • But the "work that's entailed" is so onerous that most principals just give up, or get bad teachers to transfer to another school.

    Sound Politics: On Math Standards, Expectations, Parenting & "Special Ed" 2006

  • The first eight pages are occupied with a dissertation on the origin of language, perhaps arising from a line in the dialogue between a sinner and spider, 'My name entailed is to my creation.'

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • Here, the translation "circle" is inapt, as the Hebrew term entailed something spherical, not flat.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Here, the translation "circle" is inapt, as the Hebrew term entailed something spherical, not flat.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010

  • Here, the translation "circle" is inapt, as the Hebrew term entailed something spherical, not flat.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Here, the translation "circle" is inapt, as the Hebrew term entailed something spherical, not flat.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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