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encompassing

[ US /ɛnˈkəmpəsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnkˈʌmpəsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. broad in scope or content
    an invention with broad applications
    granted him wide powers
    an all-embracing definition
    a panoptic study of Soviet nationality
    blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
    across-the-board pay increases
  2. closely encircling
    encompassing mountain ranges
    the surrounding countryside

How To Use encompassing In A Sentence

  • Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
  • After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
  • The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
  • Part of all Christian faith is the claim that the church of Christ, in an encompassing sense, is indefectible.
  • In between are 11 pages of useful information, including dry facts and quirky anecdotes, encompassing every area of life.
  • This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
  • The integrated density of a background box was subtracted from that of a box encompassing each sample.
  • The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime. The Australian | News |
  • It is huge, encompassing the navy's shipyard, where three 1,200-ton corvettes are being laid down.
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