have entailed
- present perfect of entail.
Example Sentences
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Given all the conflicts that owning Warner Bros. would have entailed, every director, producer and actor in Hollywood would have been screaming “anticompetitive” anytime Netflix made a decision they didn’t like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
That would have entailed knowing in real time when the market was going to rise and fall, and no one knows that reliably over long periods.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
"Having recourse to a European decision would have entailed a delay of at least three or four months," he added.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2023
He could have used a wide lens, but he didn’t want the spatial distortion and distancing effect that would have entailed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023
Making these stamps must have entailed a great deal of work, and they surely weren’t manufactured just to print this single document.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
