encompassing
IPA: ɛnkˈʌmpʌsɪŋ
adjective
- broad in scope or content
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Examples of "encompassing" in Sentences
- The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime.
- Mr. Hunt was also an avid collector of movable books - a term encompassing pop-ups books and those otherwise set in motion - amassing more than a thousand antique and contemporary titles.
- In fact, ancient Egypt—a term encompassing a culture that lasted for more than 4,000 years—offers an incomparable opportunity to study how and why civilizations change over a long period of time.
- “dialectical materialism” by Plekhanov — became the philosophical foundation of what from the 1890's on - wards was very generally described as “Marxism”; the term encompassing at one and the same time the
- Nanotechnology—a term encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology—is focused on understanding, controlling, and exploiting the unique properties of matter that can emerge at scales of one to 100 nanometers.
- As much as they may blend in with their peers, more than 550 students in the Ector County Independent School District are classified as "homeless," a term encompassing anything from living on the streets to staying temporarily in somebody else's place.
- Goleman 1995, 1998 popularized “emotional intelligence” as a term encompassing a limited number of socioemotional abilities and traits, including self-awareness; handling one’s own feelings and impulses; motivating others; showing empathy; and remaining connected with others through optimism, enthusiasm, and energy.
- The minimal definition of macroevolution is “evolution above the species level”, but it has become a catchall term encompassing everything from speciation to lineage-diversification and extinction dynamics to “evolution of ‘higher taxa’” ack! go read “down with phyla!” to vaguely defined “large” amounts of change to evo-devo changes in development.
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