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Negotiating with the newly elected government entails easing the ban on talking with terrorists.

Any change in the embryo or larva will almost certainly entail changes in the mature animal.†  (source) Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species

Knowing Josh, he would show up with a shovel or a rake or whatever tool the chore entailed.  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

As if climbing the peak alone in winter weren't challenging enough, this time he decided to up the ante even further by beginning his ascent at sea level, which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles from the shore of Cook Inlet just to reach the foot of the mountain.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The quantity of facts to be sought and sifted, and the agenda planned to obtain them, promised perspiration a plenty, entailing, as it did, the tracking down, the "checking out," of hundreds of people, among them all former River Valley Farm employees, friends and family, anyone with whom Mr. Clutter had done business, much or little-a tortoise crawl into the past.  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

He wrote: Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

You understand what my occupation entails, don't you?  (source) Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass, 2012

Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn't be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

Four dogs from the oldest litter were placed over the next two weeks, entailing a frantic burst of finish training, evaluation, and paperwork.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

But that entails first and foremost keeping one's temper.  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

I knew it was the call to prayer, but I didn't know what it entailed.  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

He would be the heir to the estate because that is entailed.  (source) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902

He informed us that, with the exception of a certain entailed property of Lucy's father which now, in default of direct issue, went back to a distant branch of the family, the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Old Lord Ingram's estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

I never can be thankful, Mr. Bennet, for anything about the entail.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

But lo and behold, Uncle Richard's entailment has brought us wealth again.†  (source) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black, 2018

Entailments seemed all right enough for livingroom talk.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

"For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line."  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

This entailed relocating, but we had no choice: by now, my parents had cut up all our credit cards, and our modest savings were disappearing quickly.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportunities for investment were wanting, such accumulations of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamonds and jewels, handed down by entail, and which they cannot touch.  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Miss Scout, if you give me your attention I'll tell you what entailment is.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

"Entailments are bad," I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

It entailed the Grand Duke's close friend, Admiral Stepan Makarov, who commanded the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016