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Including vs Embracing - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between including and embracing

is that including is present participle of lang=en while embracing is present participle of lang=en.

As a preposition including

is such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.

As a noun embracing is

the act of giving an embrace.

including

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • Such as, among which;
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    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}
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  • #* 2006 March 27, John Whiting (of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC), transcribed in The 2006 Budget: Fourth Report of [United Kingdom House of Commons Treasury Committee] Session 2005-06 , Volume II, ISBN 978-0-215-02857-0, page 20:
  • I have always argued that it is one that deserves a thorough-going policy review, which might come to all sorts of conclusions, including it is doing what the Government of the day wants it to.

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    embracing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving an embrace.
  • * 1849 , Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)
    • Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings , proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!

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