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inclusive as in:  an inclusive group

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  • We have a diverse and inclusive board.
  • The club became more inclusive by lowering membership fees and offering scholarships.
  • When we arrived, the gym was packed with most every Culver Creek student—I noticed, for instance, the Creek's three goth girls reapplying their eyeliner as they sat on the top row of the gym's bleachers...I'd never attended a school basketball game back home, but I doubted the crowds there were quite so inclusive.  (source)
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  • Although the four Allied powers occupied it after World War II, the Americans exerted the greatest lasting influence, perhaps because their nationalism was so inclusive, and their nation so distant.  (source)
    inclusive = welcoming to everyone
  • "But!" —here, he looked around at all of us inclusively— "there is a bright side."  (source)
    inclusively = including everyone
  • Little League rules had never specifically mentioned integration, but to its credit, the organization never wavered from its inclusive policies.  (source)
    inclusive = welcoming to all
  • As editors, we have aimed to be as inclusive as possible in our selection, choosing statements from teenagers to those in their nineties, and from a wide range of profession, background, and experience all over this country.  (source)
  • Say that to Farmer and he'd reply, "If so, it's surely the most inclusive damn club in the world, being full of people with AIDS, WL's galore, tons of students, church ladies, lots of patients, and it's a club that grows and never shrinks."  (source)
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inclusive as in:  all-inclusive vacation

It's easier to budget because the resort is all-inclusive.
inclusive = with a flat cost that includes everything
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  • The price is inclusive of all taxes and fees.
    inclusive = with a flat cost that includes
  • I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled egg-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime.  (source)
    inclusive = containing
  • The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.  (source)
    inclusive = including much or everything
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  • That is a sufficiently all-inclusive term, I think.  (source)
    inclusive = including much or everything
  • Here's a handy list, not all-inclusive, but a start: YOU MIGHT BE A CHRIST FIGURE IF YOU ARE ....(CHECK ANY THAT APPLY):  (source)
    inclusive = including everything
  • From the expression on the older man's face it was clear that his mandate would be far more inclusive than that prescribed.  (source)
    inclusive = including much or everything
  • Ben's parents liked it because it was all-inclusive and in a central location.†  (source)
  • I knew that I had to be more inclusive, brief more people as to our progress, and I proceeded with that in mind.†  (source)
  • But I won't-because, in this case, I have another, inclusive reason.†  (source)
  • 'Those lists are inclusive, not exclusive,' he said.†  (source)
  • One factor important to Jesse Sheidlower is that "American English has always been very inclusive of new terms.†  (source)
  • His sickness was only part of something larger, and his cure would be found only in something great and inclusive of everything.†  (source)
  • But it's also one that is decidedly less inclusive than the story of the 20th century, with a less certain role for people like Maddie Parlier, who struggle or are unlucky early in life.†  (source)
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inclusive as in:  10 to 20 inclusive

Chapters 1 through 10, inclusive, will be on the exam.
inclusive = including everything in the range
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  • 80% of the class scored between 75 and 95 inclusive.
  • When she chose to smile on me, I always wanted to thank her. The action was so graceful and inclusively benign.  (source)
    inclusively = in a way that warmly includes others
  • That thought was doomed to haunt Anne through the waking hours of that winter, Sunday afternoons inclusive, to the almost entire exclusion of moral and theological problems.  (source)
    inclusive = included
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  • PLAYER: We're inclusively players, sir.†  (source)
  • So long as they subscribed to it completely, their happiness was his preoccupation, but at the first flicker of doubt as to its all-inclusiveness he evaporated before their eyes, leaving little communicable memory of what he had said or done.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • "A pair of pippins," he agreed, inclusively.†  (source)
  • He swept his arm round the company inclusively.†  (source)
  • ...usually from Monday morning till Saturday night, both days inclusive.†  (source)
    inclusive = including everything within the range of the stated limits
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