encompass

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The class will encompass topics from ancient history to modern politics.

The new evidence is causing officials to broaden their investigation to encompass the finances of all family members.

Some zones were so large that they encompassed several planets, while others covered only a few kilometers on the surface of a single world.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

The garden part of the city with its geometrical arrangement of squares encompassed the three-square-mile historic district, which was built before the Civil War.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

A vision of him rose before me now: his torn back and steady face, his dark eyes encompassing everything.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Perrington's eyes fell upon the black ring on his left hand and darkened, as if his pupils had expanded to encompass all of each eye.  (source) Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass, 2012

In 1980, Denali National Park was expanded to include the Kantishna Hills and the northernmost cordillera of the Outer Range, but a parcel of low terrain within the new park acreage was omitted: a long arm of land known as the Wolf Townships, which encompasses the first half of the Stampede Trail.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The old twilight-scather Found the hoard's joyance standing all open, 2270 E'en he that, burning, seeketh to burgs, The evil drake, naked, that flieth a night-tide, With fire encompass'd; of him the earth-dwellers Are strongly adrad; wont is he to seek to The hoard in the earth, where he the gold heathen Winter-old wardeth; nor a whit him it betters.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

Yet mark anigh; Some fiery pang hath rent his soul within, Some hovering shade his brows encompasseth.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891

Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this"—I gestured encompassingly—"will have been for naught.†  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being,  (source) Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

There was one all-encompassing line, which wound across the country and back through time.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016