Word: encompass
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...embarrassed, but there was this idea that no words can encompass [feelings after the attack.] It seemed to epitomize the feeling,” Schneider says...
...evidence is causing officials to broaden their investigative and security efforts to encompass not only the carry-on bag screening system but the entire aviation security apparatus at US airports. The new evidence raises the worrisome possibility that the hijackers may have had accomplices deep within the 'secure' areas of airports - that may include the shops and restaurants in the terminal behind the metal detectors, or amongst the thousands of people who work in catering, fueling or cleaning aircraft; or anyone who might have access to the airplane before takeoff...
...Stalking Ants, Savage and Civilized") that launched, at the ripe age of 9, one of the great scientific careers of the late 20th century, a career that began in entomology--with a particular passion for ants--but that has since reinvented itself with remarkable frequency, expanding its scope to encompass not just the earth's smallest creatures but the whole living planet...
...Joplin's hits (Piece of My Heart, Me and Bobby McGee) are interspersed with excerpts from letters to her parents. It's overlong and a bit overblown: so great was Joplin's talent that it takes two performers (one sings; the other does most of the talking) to encompass her. Make that three: because of the role's "vocal demands," two performers alternate nights as the singing Janis...
...growing number of fans consider Los Hombres Calientes to be the hottest Latin jazz band touring today. However, in recent months, co-leaders Irvin Mayfield and Bill Summers have expanded the group’s horizons greatly, hoping to encompass the many Afro and Latin rhythms of North and South America. The band’s recent performance at RegattaBar was a live document of their progress...