verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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It has also encompassed questions of technique-sharpness of image, exposure values, print quality, etc.
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The capital market also encompasses the market for equity securities.
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It also encompassed a eugenist and imperialist gloss on the importance of domesticity and motherhood.
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It also encompasses fashions of clothes and social custom.
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The mainland of Yvresse lies along the eastern coast of Ulthuan but the realm also encompasses the islands of the Eastern Ocean.
more
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Authoritarianism will connote a more encompassing array of nondemocratic practices and control over citizens' political behavior.
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This year the bill is more encompassing and has greater support.
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The nearly 2-square-mile area has an identity that is far more encompassing than that.
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The search zone encompassed more than six hundred square miles of lake and woods.
■ NOUN
area
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Corporate Programmes encompass two areas of tailored programmes for companies.
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In 1992 support activities have extended to encompass all areas of the voluntary sector from the Arts to Zoological research.
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The research activities of the department are very wide, encompassing most areas of chemical engineering.
range
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Moreover, students in colleges encompass a wide age range and exhibit very varying academic abilities and communication skills.
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The new diversity of the business world encompasses a wide range of differences.
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The solutions encompass a wide range of options to suit all tastes and pockets.
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This encompasses all ranges of ability from the beginner to the very experienced.
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Historical literacy today encompasses a wide range of skills as well as the acquisition of and understanding of knowledge.
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Social life obviously encompasses a vast range of activities and beliefs and is of bewildering complexity.
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Their debates encompassed the whole range of problems which would preoccupy successive generations of the intelligentsia.
region
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Structure of the genomic region encompassing exons P3, P3A and P4.
variety
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This encompassed a wide variety of styles, and it is not within the scope of this book to enumerate them all.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Birnbaum's career encompassed television, radio, newspapers, and guidebooks.
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It was a fruitful discussion which encompassed several different viewpoints.
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The Hindu religion encompasses many widely differing forms of worship.
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The Presidio encompasses 1,400 acres and 848 buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least the house's symmetrical plan made it easy to encompass .
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But if each word stands for a whole concept and its many connotations, then a unique seven-word sentence can encompass much.
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Her hauntingly beautiful face seemed to perfectly encompass the vulnerability of adolescence.
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Moreover, students in colleges encompass a wide age range and exhibit very varying academic abilities and communication skills.
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One more step and she would be confronted by its face - a face that would encompass her own death.
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This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose.
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Thus, he differentiates between two different ideas which might be encompassed by the concept of equality.